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If I had known Lin-Manuel Miranda narrates this audiobook I would have reread it sooner..

“Sometimes that’s all you can do. Just keep getting through until you don’t have to do it anymore, however much time that takes, however difficult it is.”

3.5

Also TW for disordered eating behaviors

I didn’t know before starting this and I wish I would have, so TW for self harm

DNFing at this point. I had high hopes because I love his Contemporary. Maybe Fantasy isn’t his thing? I have no desire to continue.

First chapter and I’m already sad? This is fine. Everything’s fine.

Sufficiently creeped out

“A stillness just for me, as if the universe were holding its breath just so I could enjoy my book.”

Is Joe Hill as good as his dad? No.
Is he a great author? Absolutely.

“And if it never goes away?” “Oh, it won’t. The hurt stays, but it doesn’t have to be all there is: sadness means there were things—and are things—to be happy about.”

“They feel like evil beetles eating you from the inside, but really they’re no more dangerous than a bit of extra sticky toffee. They trick you into believing they’re something much scarier. Unlike monsters or small spaces, the only way to defeat a worry is by not worrying about it—but just try and tell that to a fretter.”

Anxiety in Middle Grade

“Magda Wartlebug had wanted to be a teacher from the age of four, when she would capture the prettiest ladybugs, stick her prettiest hatpins into them, and then fasten them to the ground so that they had to listen to her lessons about the importance of kindness.”

A tiny Umbridge I see

What the fuck is even happening..

SOS

Girlll get out. These are some incognito red flags

“I feel silly for having shouted at the rain, complaining about living under a cloud. Thing is, the sun is always in the sky—it just gets hidden sometimes.”

“It’s not what you look at that counts, it’s what you see.”

“Be the egg. Not the potato.”

“I guess some friends are just glitter, and some friends are glue.”

I love when I read MG and it’s relatable in a way that I would understand as a kid. It makes me happy to know that there is this type of book out there for young readers.

“..I get the funny thought that friendship is like boogie boarding. You have to learn when to hold on and when to let go.”

“The meteorologists on TV sound happy and excited this morning. Which means that we are in for some pretty fierce weather today.”

Travis Meyer every time there’s a tornado anywhere in Oklahoma

Wait, there’s more.

“One of the things I love most about elephants is when several elephant families live together, they all become one. The parents look out for and protect all the babies, not just the ones born to them. Those elephants are smart enough to know that blood doesn’t always make a herd. Love is a more powerful thing than that.”