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“how sad that none of them would ever know the friendship of an owl”

“a love like their’s was ruinous”

“I’m not sure it’s wrong to hold what moments of joy we can find”

the yearning is delivering

ALREADY LOVING! Whimsy, summer solstice, inner turmoil, treating bees like pets, I’m hooked.

Liking audio narrator, but I think I would get lost in it easier if I was reading physically.

“But after all, girls have to giggle. After being a woman for 3 years, I was about to become a girl.”

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TIAMAT REFERENCE

!!!!!!! I truly believe this is about to go in my top 10 of the year at least, would highly recommend (audiobook is good!)

“Why are women left out of history? why do we have to piece their stories back together from fragments like broken shards of pottery?”

“-wonders if sadness can ever be unreasonable”

“If only she had the capacity for happiness.”

“Women are expected to be like rivers: readjusted & shape shifting.”

“No matter how much you know, there is always far more that you do not know.” - “Tell me, did the river sink any lower when the bird drank from it? Knowledge is a vast expanse of water, and you’ve managed to take in no more than the swallow’s beak full.”

“If you only knew how difficult it is to be calm and composed. If you only knew the fierce fight on the inside to remain peaceful on the outside.”

“I know you don’t believe me – but a story is a flute through which truth breathes”

“Why? Because people need songs like they need bread and water; people need poetry, beauty, love. So long as the sun rises and rivers flow, there will always be weddings and celebrations and music, even fanatics can’t change that.”

A CONSERVATIONIST MAIN CHARACTER

tw/sa

“He did not see that the only way to become immortal is to be remembered after you have gone- and the only way to be remembered is to leave behind a good story.”

I know nothing of what I am about to read, I chose this as the editor’s pick challenge, but three minutes in and I’m absolutely hooked on the writing and audio narration.

“There is no such thing as a single issue struggle, we do not live single issue lives; Malcolm knew this, Martin Luther King Jr. knew this. Our struggles are particular, but we are not alone.”

“It is not anger of other women that will destroy us but our refusal to stand still to listen, to his rhythms, to learn within it, to move beyond the manner of presentation to the substance, to tap that anger as an important source of empowerment.”

“Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical; it is the one which is most secret, requires the least physical labor, the least material, and the one which can be done between shifts, in the hospital pantry, on the subway, and on scraps of surplus paper.”

the “what the world needs now is love” bit took the breath from my lungs and held it so intensely

I feel like this plot could still move along without 70% of the lying

slow build, but very easy to fall into this

“we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition; and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of silence will choke us.”

“That we not hide behind the mockery with separations that have been imposed upon us” / “and all the other endless ways that we rob ourselves of ourselves and each other”

“What are the unspoken words you have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow, day by day until you will sicken and die of them in silence.“