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There's a tire swing in anticipation of a boy? Girls don't like tire swings? WTF?

Is he really going to be a shit about this? Maybe HE should stay home and take care of the baby while SHE works. His job is a lot more dangerous. Does he want the kid to grow up without a father? They don't need the money. So why is he working? This is bullshit.

"...this is a greatlooking Jeep—all tricked-out like it is. I’ve seen a lot of people stop and take a look at it. I try to discourage the ones that want to leave a rubber duck on it."

"But once I’m a stay-at-home mom with baby Ella Marie you won’t ever have to worry anymore.” She's quitting? Okay, this series is fluff but one of the reasons I stick with it is the radio station. If that switches to diaper changes and play dates I am definitely out.

"One American can really fill a room. I assume it only takes a hundred or so to really fill a country."

"(No, I don’t know why so many important realizations occur when people are in the privy. For some reason, this topic has gone unexplored by serious scholars, even though the classical mathematician Callixus famously conceived his Third Theorem during the aftereffects of a meal of overspiced beans.)"

"Wren was wearing something green that was probably fashionable. It had ruffles, anyway, and no one would wear ruffles if fashion wasn’t involved somehow."

"Shane wondered if there was a term for feeling guilty about not feeling sufficiently guilty. It seemed like a useful word to have."

"Does your mind live in the gutter?"
She shook her head ... "No, but it rents there on occasion."

"Three times while we spoke she said, “He was wearing a helmet,” as if virtue trumped physics." 😥

"I stapled my attention to paperwork."

"eal or not, monsters don’t bother you while you’re peeing. (This is one of the lesser-known laws.)"

"Christianity doesn’t make you repaint the house ecru, as far as I know."

"As a child, when Gran Mae would say grace, Brad and I would stare at each other across the table. This is why one has siblings, after all."

"...expressions of wistful bliss or blissful wist or whatever the hell you call that particular sappy expression."

"... which makes me feel mighty, like I've been handed Excalibur in a battle my army was losing."

This is not holding my attention as much as I hoped but...

"Maybe I should have taken one more thing from him: a ride back. I can’t exactly Uber to a hidden compound on an unnamed road with no address."

This was listed under historical fiction. I don't understand - did China really have a program where they were going to make everyone dream the same dreams?!

NOT the last book?! This is good news because MORE BOOKS. This is bad news because that means I will be waiting with everyone else who discovered this wonderful series before I did at whatever cliffhanger this book ends on. Eep!

Okay, I like these books and I get it's YA which almost requires a love triangle but am I right that Alrick likes Nova and Nova likes Aschel and Raul likes Alrick? That seems a bit much.

This reminds me of Heartless by Marissa Meyer. Except more cringe-y. All the seducing of Everett including mind fucking him was just awful. Hated it. And once again I know it's not going to end well which is just ... not fun.

"Really, the only reason for even putting a buff romance hero in a shirt was so you could take it off again at the first good—or semi-plausible—excuse." 🤣🤣

Okay, I'm calling this. Goodreads says I've been reading this since January. I just can't see to get through it. I didn't mark my progress before I returned it to the library but I don't think I'm even halfway. I'm just not enjoying it. I try not to DNF something that people I trust rave about but I am done.

Whoops. Picked this up thinking it was a mystery. Will be putting it back down. Sorry, not ready for a political book right now, especially as an audiobook.

Apparently I was very excited for this next book and then missed its release. I don't remember this series so I may have to go back and re-read the other two books first. We'll see!

People in tremendous amounts of pain amd we're stopping to comment on someone's relationship. These books. Maybe I'll go back and read the first five instead of the next five. 🙄

"I turn to find Gray right beside me, and I grin, raising my hand for a high five … which of course he just stares at, blankly." 🤣🤣

"I don’t even think all the people who go to church every Sunday believe in God. I think they just need company. To feel that they belong to a group.” Kimkim nodded gently and replied: “But I don’t think that means that God doesn’t exist, Joar. I think maybe that’s what God is.”"

"Joar just wanted him to finish it, and the problem was that Joar thought you needed to start if you were ever going to finish, but that wasn’t how it worked. Art isn’t chronological. Everything the artist drew came from a place in his head that he could only get to if he wasn’t looking for it. If he was told to draw, it was like waking from a dream and trying to dream it again. A lack of self-confidence is a devasta

"Imagination is the only thing that stops us from thinking about death every second."