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“Sometimes grief is love unexpressed. Other times it’s regret made flesh.”

Some real banger lines in this book

“‘They’re not all gone. They’re coming back.’ ‘I don’t believe there has ever been a more terrible weapon in this world than the word they.’”

“You and I will stay bound together by that which is nameless and runs deeper than vow, until the very end, when the isle takes my bones into the ground and my name is nothing but memory carved into a headstone.”

“I am but a verse inspired by your chorus, and I will follow you until the end, when the isle takes my bones and my name is nothing more than a remembrance on a headstone, next to yours.”
SOBBING!

“I have been with you all this time,” she said, a soft answer that eased his rigid posture. “The good as well as the bad. Once, we were acquaintances sharing a vow. But you have become more to me than mere words spoken on a midsummer night. And I have never been one to love conditionally.”

Uggghhhh Ross is so good at romance, I love Sidra!!!

“Anybody else might have said, “I’m sorry…” They’d regret the mistakes, but profess good faith. And my attention might then have moved on. But that wasn’t Wakefield. He was untroubled by regret. He raged like an indignant shoplifter. Still concealing the turkey under his coat…”

Get him Brian!!

“With national press awards, and even an honorary doctorate, I’d become the Abraham Van Helsing to our subject’s Count Dracula, who now appeared to be climbing from his grave.”

I know this is gonna be good if this is how we are starting in the prologue!!

“People are attracted to power, darling. They can’t help themselves. Power seduces. Exert it, make a show of it, and they’ll follow you.”

“The sheer arrogance, Rin thought. It must be nice, possessing all the power, so that you could approach geopolitics like a chess game, popping in curiously to observe which countries deserved your aid and which didn’t.”

lol at this thinly veiled read of America

“Being a woman with power doesn’t mean Roz has to tread less softly around Mitch. She had to tread more softly, she has to diminish herself, pretend she’s smaller than she is, apologize for her success, because everything she does is magnified.”

“She’s just jealous, people say, as if jealousy is something minor. But it’s not, it’s the worst, it’s the worst feeling there is- incoherent and confused and shameful, and at the same time self-righteous and focused and hard as glass, like the view through a telescope.”

Obsessed with Atwood’s writing; this is quickly becoming my favorite of her books.

“Some days-and this is becoming one of them- having a body is an inconvenience. Although she treats her body with interest and consideration, paying attention to its whims, rubbing lotions and oils into it, feeding it with selected nutrients, it doesn’t always repay her…Having a body, being in the body, is like being roped to a sick cat.”

“Listen to me, Antonia,” says Zenia seriously. “All men are warped. This is something you must never forget.”

“If they stopped giving medals to such men, thinks Charis, if they stopped giving them parades and making statues out of them, then those men would stop doing it. Stop all the killing. They do it to get attention.”

Bangers ever chapter

“You know those chemicals women have in them, when they’ve got PMS? Well, men have the very same chemicals in them all the time.”

Go off queen

This book is so cute, I’m grinning like an idiot reading this on my lunch ☺️

“If Frankie hadn’t been so sick of crying, so emptied out, she would have cried. Thank God for girlfriends. In this crazy, chaotic, divided world that was run by men, you could count on the women.”

I’m crying more than Frankie, send help

Oh this book is fucked up 😳

Maybe it’s the Gone Girl effect but I’m waiting for Marian to snap lmao