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"It's a curious thing to realise you hate someone so much you could kill them. You might imagine it to be a conscious decision. Often, it comes as more of a discovery. Like stumbling on a box of belong-ings you must always have had but never realised were there."

Can this book get where it's going already broo there's 50 pages left and nothing has happened 😭 it's been a nothing sandwich so far

One of my friends told me that the book got better in the second half... OH BOY WAS SHE RIGHT AND I'M SO GLAD OF IT. ACTUALLY CRAZY WTF.

Why is this dialogue so cartoonishly cringe 😭

'She looked around at every-one, even those behind the cameras, and raised her glass up high, squeezing too hard.

She cleared her throat.

"To the most fucked-up family in America. Cheers!"'

Unfortunately, she has once again written a very unlikeable main character 😭😭 I cba

"All I will say is that you show up for your friends on their hardest days. And you hold their hand through the roughest parts. Life is about who is holding your hand and, I think, whose hand you commit to holding."

"You have to have one person in your life that you know would never do anything to steer you wrong. They may disagree with you. They could even break your heart, from time to time. But you have to have one person, at least, who you know will always tell you the truth."

Wuh luh wuh??

Oh... Am I sensing undertones of climate change denial.... Oh no.........

"You'll have to forgive me. I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being I've left or been forced to leave behind me, and it all seems just as quaint, from here, and I am just as obsessive about it.
Like a White Russian drinking tea in Paris, marooned in the twentieth century, I wander back, try to regain those distant pathways; I become too maudlin, lose myself."

"All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself."

"Sequelae are inherently unpredictable"

"Reptiles are abhorrent because of their cold body, pale color, cartilaginous skeleton, filthy skin, fierce aspect, calculating eye, offensive smell, harsh voice, squalid habitation, and terrible venom; wherefore their Creator has not exerted his powers to make many of them."

LINNAEUS, 1797

"You cannot recall a new form of life."

ERWIN CHARGAFF, 1972

I've been reading 3 star books for so long I'm finally breaking free 😭😭

I knew it was coming broo why did I stick this out 💔

Groundbreaking new thriller: Mad woman is actually mad. Everyone is surprised.

Written well and enjoyable but when I step away it's so typical, just like every other book in this genre. Interesting, but nothing different. Still it's better than studying :P

Very much a messy soup of popular tropes... Fortunately, I love overdone clichés 🤩