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June’s talent for manipulation runs so deep that even her inner monologue almost convinces me she's right at times.

Finn is so DK coded.

"I was a bookish child and grew to be a bookish adult. Books gave me pleasure but they also gave me permission to isolate myself, to turn away from the world when it bothered or frightened me. Books allowed me to hide from demands, from the day, from family and the immediate world. They provided solace and amusement in the deep night and served as surrogates for friendship when I was far away from home..."

"I was a bookish child and grew to be a bookish adult. Books gave me pleasure but they also gave me permission to isolate myself, to turn away from the world when it bothered or frightened me. Books allowed me to hide from demands, from the day, from family and the immediate world. They provided solace and amusement in the deep night and served as surrogates for friendship when I was far away from home..."

As an almost 30 year old woman with a father who has unpredictable health conditions, I was not ready to start this book being talked through anticipatory grief 🙂

"I want to be a body for you.
I want to chase you, find you, I want to be eluded and teased and adored; I want to be defeated and victorious—I want you to cut me, sharpen me. I want to drink tea beside you in ten years or a thousand."

THIS SCI FI BOOK IS MORE ROMANTIC THAN OTHER ROMANCE BOOKS I'VE READ GDI

This is opening up some parents-getting-older feelings I might not be ready to confront.

"Some men’s childhoods are permitted to last forever, but women are so often reminded that there is work to be done."

I'm fighting the urge to just drop this book. I don't think there's anything wrong with it but I can't seem to care about it ngl.

Chapter 9 was a rollercoaster /neg

Idk if I was Rebecca this book would be over in the 50% mark because you bet I'd accept every single thing that Nate gives me.