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Mei: "I'm angry that I have to make my own gods. I'm angry that even the gods I make can't help my family."

"If he had said Athena I would have rolled with that" rolled with? this takes places in 1954? this plus all the valley girl "likes" is.. a choice

(Today, those sons of [Najmieh Batmanglij] are stars in their own right: [...] while Rostam is a musician who was a founding member of the indie band Vampire Weekend.) -- TIL

"The woman closed her eyes at Vivi's touch, dazed and drunk on the heady smell of my sister's skin. With her eyes still shut, she opened her mouth and sucked on Vivi's finger." i.... hate being able to read, actually

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The magic lifted her as gently as though she were a note of music and it were singing her.

Her [the unicorn's] trapped terror was more lovely than any joy that Molly had ever seen, and that was the most terrible thing about it.

"There is no immortality but a tree's love."

"I have never seen anyone like you, not while I was awake. There were supposed to be a few unicorns left when I was a boy, but I knew only one man who had ever seen one. They are surely gone, lady, all but you. When you walk, you make an echo where they used to be."

'But another sound followed them long after these [sounds] had faded, followed them into morning on a strange road -- the tiny, dry sound of a spider weeping.'

'She was very old, though she did not know it, and she was no longer the careless color of sea foam...'

i have so many questions for wee!hedgehog about this book, need a time machine to interview myself

'They were Dieu's favorite lines, and she was almost afraid to look up to see how the tiger took them. When you love a thing too much, it is a special kind of pain to show it to others and to see that it is lacking.'

"So, she leaves. She skips class. She calls in sick to work. She listens to [her boss] tut at her over the phone." instead of firing her ass? ino i just took enormous mental damage from the seance scene but no. this is not how jobs work. this is not how anything works. i am trapped like the MPDG ghost but instead of on a subway, it's in this ridiculous hellscape of a novel

how is the MC paying for college? is this a question that will be answered? my zero sympathy for this quirky hipster nonsense is draining into the negatives. i'm aware i'm not even 10% through.

i do not know what new books are or what grownup sentences are like or what reading is anymore unless a middle-aged woman in a southern accent is reading to me, what can i say

bookclub has more to answer for than usual

why is emil thinking he doesn't recognize laila/doesn't know her name? didn't he say out loud to someone earlier that he knew her by reputation? (runs a kindle search) yeah that was his pov. (he does recognize her a couple of page flips later BUT this still seems like an error? i am genuinely reading for the plot at this point bc the romance is forced af, don't do this to me, lax editing)

i'm still not in the mood for romance (the genre), ig :/ all i could think of during this ill-timed sex scene was 'PLEASE wash your hands before you go sticking them unprompted in people's mouths'. or like. talk about the near death experience you just had? that would be plot or sensible so i guess we can't possibly have that. but can we have some hand sanitizer at least

'something knocked me out of my teleportation realm, we're lost, i have no idea who you are, but this is definitely a narratively and emotionally appropriate time to want to bone' no!!!!!! it's not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!