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any quote i put is a spoilers but trust me this shit had my jaw on the FLOOR

CANNOT PUT THE LINE HERE BC ITS A SPOILER BUT WHAT THE FUCKKKKKKKK

"Bea wondered if these women saw her as alien. If these men did. If Ray did."

"Am I a tough guy, or do I only care about my reputation? Am I actually a coward? Have I let myself down? Have I let my dad down, even though he didn’t see me? Trevor is gone. I look around. No one has seen us. I decide never to talk about it, ever. It is my secret. I’ll think about that moment constantly. It drives me. It dictates how I live my life from that day forward."

"If you’re not looking for love, why would you date?”

"As it turned out, potions could take the witch out of the past, but they couldn’t take the past out of the witch. She still wanted so badly to be loved."

"Without taking her eyes off the police officers or her smile off her face, Meg whispered, 'These are constables. You’re either my aunt, or you’re a burglar to be sentenced to flogg-ing.' / Thorn put her arm around Meg. 'My dear lovely niece.'"

“A woman without a man (...) is woe.”

"His father barely speaks now. He emits sounds. Complaints. The words are there, encapsulated. They’re rotting behind the madness."

'“My mother said there are no homosexuals in our family.” / “Maybe there aren’t, but there might be a lesbian.”'

'"This is my last year of freedom, and I’m going to make it one to remember."'

"In her imagination, Tommy had been like a matinee idol—sweet-faced and tender. In reality, Tommy was a woman made of flesh and blood, and that frightened Lily most of all."

"Sometimes he felt as if he never saw past the surface anymore; it was safer to look at the world with a detached, clinical eye."

"There was a stage between wakefulness and sleep when she seemed to be able to direct her unconscious mind; the problem was, she could never be sure when that stage began or ended."

"This bright, clean restaurant in Chinatown that smelled of sugar and cream was not the place to ask, but Lily felt as if her thoughts must be written in plain English on her face. Are you like the girls in the book too? Because I think I am."

"An unfamiliar emotion swelled inside her at this image, a strangely sharp pang for a place she had never visited, for a people she resembled but did not know. As she stared blankly down at her textbook, she thought that perhaps it was patriotism, but not for America. For China."

"She wanted to ask if any of them were from Shanghai, but she felt shy around them—she felt un-Chinese—and besides, they had to eat."

"She slowed down to let her mother go ahead of her, as if that might make others think they weren’t together."

"If she were exceptionally daring, she would cut away the words TOMMY ANDREWS MALE IMPERSONATOR from this ad and pin up the picture in the space left by the moon colony. She doubted that anyone—even Shirley—would realise that the photo was not of a man."

just finished all the case files oh my god actually what the fuckkkk im so seated for these deductions

'“You’re incandescent. The whole world ought to be brightened by your light.”'

"Cat’s mouth quirked. 'Some people fancy ladies and gentlemen both, you know.' / Yes, of course. Of course she knew that, although her own preferences certainly did not seem to have ever trended toward the male half of the populace."

'“Generally,” he went on, “you are possessed of both restraint and good sense. Today, however, I begin to worry that you are simply possessed.”'

"'Eleven eleven,' I say suddenly. 'Make a wish.'"

"He pouts, and I can see how if I liked men, this might work on softening me."