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"God killed me, and only after He had made me into someone entirely different than the person I had been, did he call me back to life."

Dot Weems character is so universal and by that I means exists in every parallel world, like Caesar in Hunger Games or Jimmy Fallon. It’s impressive that they can be so neutral and do not hold any side…

so addictive and emotional and full of humour

Time Passes is so heart-wrenching.

"...how Life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach."

"...when the girl spoke, as, after a flight through the sunshine the wings of a bird fold themselves quietly and the blue of its plumage changes from bright steel to soft purple."

Lily Briscoe reminds me of Jo March or Muriel Stacy

"It seemed to her such nonsense - inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that."

I have to read the first chapter of the Window again since I did not quite get everything in it. And, I noticed that the way the story is told is weirdly fascinating. We jump from being the 3rd narrative to each character's mind during a very short time. I feel like this is going to take time...

This chapter (featuring John and his departure) is so heartbreaking. Reminds me of the lyrics “I hate you for what you did, but I miss you like a little kid.” And I realized that the gap in the memories we all have is probably for the best. If we are able to remember all the despair we have gone through, everyday would be a mourn for the past.

I’m balling my eyes out.

I want to read as fast as possible so that I know what happened between these two extraordinary women.

I love the fact that kids forget easily. They cannot be sad and desperate for so long. It's funny though as I wish I could be like them... Oh! Or the kid I was.

This book is a Time Machine. It really captures what it is like to be a child. I seem to forget how I was once so innocent and silly in my thinking and actions.

The first few pages of this book in which Douglas got struck by the fact that he is alive really reminds me that I had the same experience. I was chugging rice from the bowl when I realized that I was alive, too. That feeling was so weird and made me feel a little absurd but yeah, I realized I existed.