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“I wonder if, like newborn children, we go through our entire lives looking for a face, longing for a particular gaze that calms and fills us, that loves and welcomes us, that recognizes and runs to greet us.”

“A man who loves all women loves no woman. A man who loves only one woman loves all women.”

“I know you deal with some mighty bad people, but it might do you good to look at some faces sometimes. There are real people in those faces.”

“Baby, they's justice and they's mercy, If you not sure what to do and you gotta choose one or the other, I say always go the mercy way. If you make a mistake, make it for mercy. Bad mercy don't hurt nearly like bad justice, and always remember, the Eye of God can see."

The older I get, the more convinced I am that every hurt the world has ever known is somehow the fault of every person who ever lived. Maybe not directly and never entirely, but somehow, I fear, we own all of the world’s hurts together.”

“I simply help people sit still long enough to see what is already there.”

“No, Boomba was no monster. All Boomba was, was a man whose moral compass pointed toward the north of his own family. Wasn’t that the most ordinary thing in the world?”

“Please understand. Please understand that our lives are fuller, more bursting, more replete, than is possible for your documents and questionaries to contain.”

“Fragile hearts break in palaces and dark alleys alike.”

I’m not entirely sure what I read or if I could summarize the plot to anyone else but I loved the characters so much?!?!?!?

3.5 rounded up. I really loved this authors writing style. Short, declarative, plays well with ADD. Will definitely read more of her work.

“And if they could all hold on to those reminders, if they could help each other create them, maybe together they would be able to make it through the godforsaken war. Not necessarily whole, but human.”

“Lionesses. Us. Can’t you just see it, Ellie?

We are cubs now, maybe. But we will grow to be lionesses. Strong women who make things happen.”

Reread from, like, 20 years ago?!?!

“Love cannot possibly be simple, or easy, despite all the adages to the contrary. When we choose to chisel pieces of our heart away to offer to another person, we must always make decisions. What flaws will we lift to the light? And which will be bury, in the hopes of protecting ourselves and others?

Started super strong. Beautifully written. Didn’t love the end / was kind of over it by the last section.

I literally no nothing about tennis….and absolutely could not put this down. What a treasure trove of character development and depth.

one of those books you wonder if you got a different version than everyone else becauuussseeee 👎🏻🥱😵‍💫