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The chapter headings and themes that parallel with John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress is a genius move

“You’re going to change every time you take a step, take a risk, meet someone, learn something new, get hurt. Either that or you’ll plant your feet and atrophy.”

SO EXCITED TO READ THIS RN.

I know I just read this, but this time it’s for school, I swear 😭😂

I swear this book is low-key giving me trauma ✋😭

She opened the box. Reached in. And lifted out a gleaming bell.. "Hang it wherever you like," he said. "In the open, if you want to hear it often. Somewhere protected if you don't. Up to you." I…swung it gently.
The single note that rose from it was pure violet. A shivering, silvery, silky violet that climbed the air in tendrils, weaving itself into the rafters overhead like a morning glory.
Who writes like this??

Yeah, I know I’m reading like 5 books at once right now 😭🫣 I’m in a reading slump ok

THE DUAL POV CHAPTER >>

“I think there comes a point when your sadness gets too great that you can no longer feel anything at all. You just become numb…… I think I’d finally run out of tears, and I didn’t even know that was possible.”

Why is this book making me laugh so much

wow

AHHHHHHHHHH

“I missed him the way the shore misses the sea when the tide goes out.
But when I picked up my paintbrush, when I loaded it with paint, when I touched that color to the canvas, my tide came back in. And my father along with it.
Being sad was part of my life. But so was he.”

“Stress doesn’t cause ugly attitudes and behavior; it reveals it.”

“Look at the process of heartache like you would a peninsula. One with a road carrying you past a myriad of delights and wonders. Grief requires you to circle around the issue at hand, sometimes passing it by many times until it is no longer the destination but just part of the landscape. Don’t give in to your despair. You are making progress even if some days it just feels like you’re going in circles.” WOW.

It's giving cozy vibes

THE WAY I SQUEALED WHEN THIS CAME IN THE MAIL

That feeling when you het a library haul 🤌🤌