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the concept of the psychiatrist not addressing the obsessive eating but kinda encouraging it (?)

“Things change with time. You don't have to overthink it beyond that point.” i think this is a questionable thing to say when talking about a relationship with beauty

i want to know what this medication is that the psychiatrist has prescribed and is increasing the dosage of even though she is claiming the author has more than just simple depression

this book is a lot more vulnerable than the last

“Do you think if you do that people's minds will change? Sure, they might be surprised at first. But do you think it would change how they feel about you? What are they going to say atter you make a point of how bad things were for you, 'Oh, how much you must've suffered? Is there really a difference whether you show them or not, in the end?”

i don’t know how i feel about the psychiatrist promoting appetite suppressants

“For now, I choose to be happy with a dream, rather than empty without one."

Isobelle simply stared at her, held by the force of Hilde's eyes.

"I must be content with a dream," Hilde whispered. "But your knight is real. Go to her."

“Oh, Gwen... what kind of dad would I be if I tried to stop you from being who you were born to be?"

"Why bring me here, do all this, only to give up? This isn't just your dream, Isobelle it's mine now, too. And I think it always was mine, you just showed me how to let myself want it."

"I was wrong. If I taught you to dream, then I was wrong."

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“A favor, for you have mine, Sir Knight. Today, you are a knight. and today, you are my knight.”

hehehe

i don’t like this self aware foreshadowing

"Is it still jealousy if the girls are swooning over my alter ego?"

no sense of realizing isobelle's been hitting on her at every opportunity this is so entertaining

"Inevitably, things will ebb and flow, so how sucky would it be if I didn't live in these magical moments while I'm in the middle of having them?"

one party after another, i think its dragging a bit.

"What a shame this would be, to not see life play out like it's supposed to."

"I am in constant conflict with myself when it comes to my relationship with family. I feel guilty that I am complicating their cookie-cutter lives and that I create a burden where there was none before..."

"The fight to remain sweetly earnest as we age just might be the greatest fight of all."

oh how i've missed this

"This bag of bones must go eventually. Besides, this dying thing. Well, it's perfectly safe."
"What does it feel like?" I asked.
"Death? It's like a big piece of ice melting."

"I was nearly sixty before I saw that the parts of me I had tried so hard to get rid of were not sins, but part of the human condition."

"Sue said I was mocking the whole notion of God, but I wasn't. I was simply trying to imagine that there was a different God than the one I was raised with."

"The walnut represents the meaty, rich love of God." He turned to me and said, "What if you crack it open and it is rotten inside?"

"For if anyone could ward off Satan, it would be my mother."

"A desire for justice can bring about peace and solidarity; raging thought, however, intoxicated by longing for a perfect society, leads to 'slave camps under the flag of freedom [and] massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman"

"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy is unhappy in it's own way. According to Diamond, this is because there is only one way to be happy, namely by not having a single one of all the possible problems that could cause unhappiness..."

"the clever way out of this dilemma that the Church quickly had to offer was to promise rich people access to paradise if they kept their wealth in the here and now and enjoyed it, as long as they were willing to bequeath it to the Church after their deaths.

... contributing to the weakening of existing family structures by ethically blocking the transfer of wealth within families."

"WEIRD (western, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic) people see their identity as impersonal and abstract, while most other people have a concrete self-conception shaped by complex social relationships and roles."

"There are no atheists in foxholes is said to have been an aphorism widespread among US soldiers during the Second World War, and Marx was also correct in his diagnosis when he described religions as the 'sigh of the oppressed creature' and suspected their function to be a primarily palliative comfort."

"A diversion through despotic rule, exploitation and war over several millennia eventually created the conditions for modern society to emerge. Was it worth it?"

"Whether hunter-gatherers were on average happier than some modern humans is a controversial question. Still, an incredibly large number of people have undeniably suffered catastrophic consequences as a result of exchanging the original way of life for a life bordering on modernity. Millions of child labourers would undoubtedly have been much better off under pre- Neolithic conditions."