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"Finally, without letting go, she whispers, "You don't have to be strong, baby. We'll do it weak. We'll limp and hurt and take everything one day at a time."

ah, it's the funeral, isn't it?

"Some people prefer to do what is easy, Grit, and hate is easy. Anger is easy."

Man, her stories always have some type of gut-punch twist

We watched the stars for a bit longer, and then we went to bed for the very last time.”

How did people keep doing---keep existing---on the hard days?"

This story is getting sadder and sadder—radiation illness?

This is starting to depress me

Maybe, I thought, what was scary about knowing when you were going to die was knowing the exact moment you would stop mattering. It was the worst—a heavy, rocks-in-your-bag type of feeling.”

My penguin notebook was my favorite place to hide. I knew it was a book and technically not a place, but whenever the world felt too big, I flipped through its pages and tucked myself into the words that I’d scribbled in there.”

Despite what Keishin had learned in biology, purpose was more important for keeping someone alive than the blood in their veins.”

Whoa! Way to tight it all together

“He had lived lifetimes inside Hana, and when exhaustion overwhelmed desire, he dissolved, happily, in her embrace. He closed his eyes, enjoying the weight of Hana’s head on his chest.”

:(

Chile, I wasn’t expecting this

What do you want me to say, Hana? That nothing I did in my world truly made me happy? That I’ve spent my life trying to fill a void carved out by my mother? That when I came here, pretending to be all noble and saying that I wanted to help you, all that was really thinking about, was finally discovering something that would make me worthy of being love? You weren’t the only one who hid the truth.”

Ouch.

But whatever we feel for each other has no place in this world or yours.”

“It doesn’t have to belong to either of our worlds, Hana. It just needs to belong to us.”

The truth behind Hana’s world

Before he could retreat into any dream, he would have to endure restless hours staring at a smile that was never meant for him.”

I hate when pregnant women have to give birth in uncomfortable situations in fictional stories - childbirth is hard enough

...The worst things about choices..." Hana bit her lip. [....] "Is having to live with them."

My grandmother taught me the way to her tea house when I was a little girl. You turn left when you fall asleep and turn right at the end of your second dream.”

Okay, now I need the ending to the turtle story

"Puddles cannot take us to my grandmother's teahouse."

"How do we get there?"

"We need to share a bed."

*scooby doo noise*

Part 2!

Scars don’t make you any less than what you are. They are simply stories, just like this scroll. You may not see mine, but I have my fair share.”

"I know what happens when people pretend not to see you. I will never know for sure if I would have been like those people who chose to look the other way when you were assaulted. Finding out if you are a coward isn't something any hypothetical scenario can answer. I refuse to be the kind of person who looks away."

magical realism and bite-sized chapters? not bad

"And now her father's life was hers, and from here on, nothing was ever going to be new."