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“It’s a miracle that anyone would ever fall in love with someone else and — of all the people in the world — that person loves them back. Like if you fell off a building and landed in a pillow truck, somehow.”

“Suddenly evil isn’t punching people or even hating them. Suddenly it’s all that stuff you’ve left undone. All the kindness you could have given. All the excuses you gave instead. Imagine that for a minute. Imagine what it means.”

“It is often the case that, at times of great anxiety, when the diversion of a good story should seem most welcome, one is least equipped to focus one’s mind on reading .”

“During heavy storms, when little cracks of lightening broke through the sky or the loud shout of thunder, the fear of what was to come made Jasmin shiver. It seemed to mask Jasmin that her mother lived in this in-between place — always shaking, about to crack open, always waiting for the thunder.”