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“You have always known who I am. Who I am is your mother. This is the truest part of me.”

I got this for a NetGalley badge before refreshing myself on The Time Traveller’s Wife.

Will give it my best shot 🤦🏻‍♀️

And there it is.
“I exhale a breathe I didn’t realize I was holding”

Part of the “I let go a breathe I didn’t realize I was holding”

For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.

"I think I'm hallucinating," said Selena, surprised into honesty.
"Nice weather for it," said Grandma.

I’m obsessed with Grandma Billy.

"Girls only read romance books when they aren't having one."

I first read this book in 1998/1999 - and I’ve thought of this quote a lot since then.

"Another thing, Luke. Where do you get words like obelisk and venerable? You were throwing them around a while ago."
"Oh, well," he said, "they're in the dictionary, alpha-betized."
BURN

“Fang Castle… The theme's year-round Halloween. Guys in Dracula capes park the car, and you walk across a drawbridge… The host stands in an upright coffin, and when you shake his hand, it comes off. The main restaurant is the Stephen King Memorial Room, but we like the Jason Lounge… The hallway down to the Exorcist Juice Bar is called Elm Street.”

Someone take notes please!

“We’d been through something our parents hadn’t. The war made us older than our parents - and when you’re older than your parents, what are you going to do? Who’s going to show you how to live?”

“Her heartbeat is so loud, her heels at the edge of a great precipice, wind rushing all around her. She doesn't want to look back. For so long, she couldn't bear to.
But clearly, it's not a choice anymore. Closing your eyes doesn't stop monsters from devouring you.”

“I felt a buzz in response. Like I was a doorbell, somehow, and he was . . . ringing me.”

Girl WHAT. I’m already so annoyed but the main character. If this wasn’t an ARC I would be putting this down.

I am too cynical for this right now. But. We prevail.