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“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.

“I had to find out if I could make it on my own.”

Girl, no you don’t. Go with that man 😂

“I’ll keep the name. It’s mine now, and I’ll make them regret giving it to me.”

“Soon enough, human.”

Uh oh, y’all!

“You’re going to make another pact…”

“The only being that defied the ancient standard — the standard of me first, me only, I, I, me — was a mother. A mother, in the bones of her bones, was not in balance. She gave, without ending. She thought not as an I but as a we and more often it was you, you, my darling, you. A mother protected, tipping scales, weighing odds, defying the system.”

“There were many things Neema might do, in an emergency. Stealing from a library was not one of them.”

I’ve got a theory brewing now that I’ve seen rules 4 & 5

“And then all hell broke loose.”

This is going to be a wild ending, isn’t it?