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“So please do not pity Cora Zheng while condemning Trayvon Martin… do not let your empathy stop at the borders of your own community.”

Kylie Lee Baker ate and left zero crumbs.

“Because a bat eater is the kind of person that white ment want to hurt, the kind of person who tangles their fear and hate together and elicits their rage, the kind of person who scared them. And Cora knows all too well that you can’t fear someone who has no power over you.”

Covid turned horror turned mystery? I’ve got whiplash but it somehow works?

Im getting the vibe Cora’s a very unreliable narrator.. but also, I don’t remember the last horror book I read so maybe it’s all purposeful?

A heavy read so far, definitely better in small doses.

“It’s strange how hate and love can so quietly exist at the same time.”

“When you’re drowning and someone grabs your hand, you don’t ask them where they’re taking you.”

“But not everyone has dreams. Some people just are, the way that trees and rocks and rivers are just there without a reason, the rest of the world moving around them.”

“… families who just want to f*cking live but are trapped in the place city for the greater good.”

OH. MY. GOD. What an absolute mind f*ck. What do you meannn. Either I’m crazy or this works because it doesn’t work??? Let me pick my jaw off the floor and gather my thoughts 😮‍💨

What a page turner, I haven’t been able to put this one down!

“There’s so much pain everywhere, and we just close our eyes to it.”

The last sentence. The last paragraph has me in a distressed, ugly crying, heaping mess. He went back home🥲

“That’s all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they’re trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.”

“Language was just difference. A thousand different ways of seeing, of moving through the world.”

“We have to d*e to get their pity. We have to d*e for them to find us noble. Our d*aths are thus great acts of rebellion, a wretched lament that highlights their inhumanity. Our d*aths become their battle cry.”

My poor sweet angel Victoire 🥺

“Strikers in this country never won broad public support, for the public merely wanted all the convenience of modern life without the guilt of knowing how those conveniences were procured.”

“Violence shocked the system, because the system could not cannibalize itself and survive. The hands of the Empire were tied, because it could not raze that from which it profited.”

The problem is that we’re always living like we’ve lost… we see their guns, their silver-work, and their shops, and we think it’s already over for us. We don’t stop to consider what things would look like if we took the gun.”

“…who professed always to love her, to absolutely adore her, but who failed to hear anything she was saying if it didn’t comport with how she already saw the world.”

Stressed is an understatement

“He was fine w resistance as long as it didn’t hurt him. And the contradiction was fine, as long as he didn’t think too hard about it, or look too closely. But spelled out like this, in such bleak terms, it seemed unarguable that far from being a revolutionary, Robin, in fact, had no convictions whatsoever.”

“History isn’t a premade tapestry that we’ve got to suffer, a closed world with no exit. We can form it. Make it. We just have to choose to make it.”

“And they never would say it out loud. It hurt too much to consider the truth. It was so much easier to pretend; to keep spinning the fantasy for as long as they could.”

“He buried his past life, not because it was so terrible but because abandoning it was the only way to survive.”

Sansa book 1 is THE most annoying character, besides Viserys.

Im already dreading the second half of this book, I hate Ned’s storyline just because I love him so much 🥲