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Even though I saw this coming, I hate the trauma reveal at the heart of this story.

I don’t know what percentage I’m at, but chapter 25 reveal…just no. No no no. I knew it from the synopsis, but goodness that hurt to read.

"So," I say to Grant. "What are your
existing strengths?"
He swats at a gnat. "I wield a mean Oxford
comma."
"Hilarious. Do tell how this will help you in
a life-and-death situation."
"In that I will be getting stabbed, bleeding out, and dying in a clear and concise manner."

“Good for the mind, but bad for the posture.” Me, reading this book.

Turning 21?? How do I always forget how young the FMCs are in these books??

“Even girls of thirteen can figure out that a man’s ghost reflects who he was and everything he’s ever done.”

“For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in town.”

“If we stand by while evil consumes the most innocent of us, we will deserve what happens when it reaches our own doors.”

“Jealousy is wanting what someone else has. And he doesn’t have you yet…does he?”

“Did we make it across the frontier?”

“If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: In love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”

“And it sneaks up on me this sensation...Here we are, doing small things, nothing really, just talking, watching television. And yet in the nothingness there is a life more real than any wedding or christening or birthday party. In these tiny moments, when the spectacle is stripped away, when there is no reason for the day, what's left appears to be something true, something fundamental to being a person.”

“I’d be honored if you’d raise your expectations for me.”

“I would just like to pause here and say: another woman would have cracked years ago.”

“Yours is the kind of love that changes the wind and breaks the stars…Yours is the kind of love that ignites everything it touches.”

Okay, now that I did not see coming…

“…those who loved books and those who wanted to ban them have one single thing in common — we all believe reading a book can change you.”

Well played, Meg. Well played.

On book banners: “Real people do it too. No magical powers required, just a fatal lack of imagination and compassion.”

“They will make you feel as if you have no choice…but there is always a choice. Have courage, little one.”

Is the making pancakes thing a plot twist??Because it’s been referenced so many times it’s starting to feel very Legally Blonde à la “the witness has made it clear that she was in the shower.”

“Hatred…a failure of reason at best and a failure of empathy at worst.”

“The truth is, there’s no such thing as a normal life. There’s just the time you get and how you spend it.”

I hate that she said that…this might have ruined it for me 😭

Ladies, please don’t be a Toni.

Well that was wild…

“Maybe we all have sea monsters living in our brains.”

“So he was hot andtall. So what? He was also a prick. And blond. My standards were low, but they weren’t in hell.”

“…that books were her language, her neighborhood, her connection to reality.”

I get it, Ellen.