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“…a house too long without people became a little feral.”

All knots can be united with a few deaths, or ten thousand. (204)

How I love to have no armor here. (171)

“She knew that people enjoyed sex. She always thought that it was an indulgence. She hadn’t known it was a hunger.”

“In the dark, it’s easier to start thinking that evil is stronger than it is.”

You are right. I am foolish. I was born for a cage after all, convent or house, what else is there?

OMg! This whole section! You are a verb….the geeky grammar person in me is in love with this description!

By verbally identifying an object, by giving it a name, we alter it, and at the same time, we prevent it from changing.

I had to stop a minute because I am sick over Lisa. Fair told Sasha he wouldn’t ask her to do the impossible, but he certainly asked it of Lisa. And perhaps it is true that what he asked her to do was not IMpossible, it is certainly abhorrent.

The sea had time and patience enough for two.

We value the briefest moments most because they are the ones that define us. A first kiss. A sudden death. An accident. A marriage proposal. A high.

“There is such peril in loving things at all. And he feels sort of proud, in fact, that he just keeps on doing it.”

“But here is the nature of life, that we must love things with our whole selves, knowing they will die.”

It’s too long for me to quote, but 44% into Wild, Dark Shore, Dominic‘s little aside? Oh my heart.

“ Protecting a thing is just an excuse to control it.”

“Find a bad guy, and if you can’t, make one up.”

“By the time I make it back to my gang, four broken doves are at my tail.”

I don’t know why tears just sprang to my eyes when I read that line, but I know it doesn’t bode well for the games.

Ah…the breath he didn’t know he was holding! I needed that for my book club prompt!!

Well…boo. I can’t get to the website for the book despite trying to go at it several different ways- so if you have a link, please shoot it to me! Www.emilynash.com doesn’t load, soooo…this will be a DNF for me until I can be able to experience it all.

And I loved Skeleton Creek!

OMG! WHAT JUST HAPPENED?
THIS CAN’T BE HAPPENING!

RELEASE THE KRAKEN!

And then one night you realize you have given so much of yourself that you are nothing but the curtsy and the smile and the quiet. That you… are nothing.

“Love was that, paying attention.”

“ it was like being legend to death by a cheerful turtle.”

Peter’s Chapter 20 has me sick and crying. I mean I know it isn’t his..,fault, but…still.

Ok…ok…I was (am??) really liking this book until just this moment. Yes, yes…a serial killer is out there but Joel suggests she go for a walk while he is at a meeting but freaks out when she has someone from work over?

Like I get the suspicion of the coworker….but how would taking a public walk without anyone be any bloody safer?

And frankly, if I hear, babe, baby, or toots even one more time I’m going to vomit.

I could’ve done without this entire section about Sammy. I am just cringing entirely at the whole set up and execution of this side story. I hope it makes sense in the end because …gross. Her kids are there for Pete’s sake!

This may be the best collection of short stories yet!!

OMG…things are so tense…is the twist coming? Is there a twist? I thought I figured out where this was going but now I’m all on the edge of my seat!