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‘“Challenging me isn’t pestering. I’m not always right. Sometimes I deserve to be challenged. And changing your mind isn’t foolish. It just means you’ve learned something new. Everyone changes their mind sometimes, as they should, or else they’re just, I don’t know, stubborn and ignorant. Moving water is healthy; stagnant water is sickly. Tainted.”’

Completely forgot I’d started this. Let’s see if I can actually finish it this time.

Rereading some old favourites to see if they hold up after so many years and to decide whether to carry on with their respective series or not. The infodumping and name dropping at the start of this is not convincing me so far…

‘They function properly, the two of them. Sharing everything, withholding nothing.’

‘“I would gladly listen to anything you choose to speak of. In fact, I would listen to you speak every day, from moonrise to sunset to moonrise again if that is what you wish.”’

‘“In all the worlds and all lifetimes, our souls are bound together. Wherever you go, to the ends of this world or the next, I will follow.”’

Completely forgot to mark myself as reading this, and now in a race against time to finish it before my book club meets. Uh oh.

‘“As a parent, what do you want for your children?” Tooms said. “More than you want for yourself.” “So the bar is low in your case.”’

‘“Your hand isn’t mine to give or his to take. Only yours to offer.”’

‘“Okay is the preserve of the uninspired, Patchwork. I’d rather live and die at the extremes than exist in the middle.”’

‘“If you ever get the chance to make someone smile, or better yet, make someone laugh, then you take it. Each and every time,” Norma said.’

Christmas reread in an attempt to hit my Goodreads goal for 2025. Wish me luck!

‘A criminal could wear anything they wanted, and a pretty face could hide the darkest heart.’

‘Maybe this was how friendships started, someone placing a fistful of feelings in your hand and saying, Keep it safe.’

‘‘If equal-opportunity orgasms and parity in relationships are crazy ideas, then I don’t want to be sane!’ Kaori waved him off. ‘Yes, yes, but let’s not traumatize Jeanie at her first meeting.’ Jeanie felt less traumatized and more horrified that Jacob was reading her mind, but she wasn’t about to add that to the conversation.’

‘Her imagination very helpfully filled in the ‘then what?’ with a pornographic slideshow of ideas. She shook her head free of the wildly inappropriate things she wanted to do to the grumpy farmer on her café floor. Now was not the time for that. She had an angry spirit at her back door.’

‘What was in the water here? Were all the town’s men sexy? Was that the dream of Dream Harbor? Jeanie couldn’t say she was mad about it.’

‘No one could live a laid-back, quaint, small-town life with a murderer outside their back door. That was just logical.’

‘It’s only when knowledge about something slowly spreads to the whole body that you truly know. I know too that I, like every living thing, will have to die some day, but my hands, my feet and my guts still don’t know it, which is why death seems so unreal.’

‘I can’t think who I should lie to today. I can allow myself to write the truth; all the people for whom I have lied throughout my life are dead.’

‘“I’m really sorry,” Rui repeated, knowing full well apologies often meant nothing. Just ephemeral words to absolve the offender.’

‘I would let the whole world burn if it kept you warm.’

‘Appearance is as powerful a weapon as any sword.’

‘Men are inept creatures. They can’t build a life for themselves without the support and kindness of a woman.’

“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”

‘I sometimes think maybe all the tears we cry are due to this huge gap between the how-we-think-things-should-go and what-life-actually-gives-you.’

‘I guess one of the biggest misconceptions about love is that you can only love one person at a time. Whereas I’m starting to think hearts can compartmentalize. That a heart can grow walls in itself, with chambers specially reserved for each person we fall in love with - making it possible to have feelings for one person without that impacting the feelings you have for another.’

‘I’m starting to realize something. I’m starting to realize that craziness may not always come from within. I’m starting to think lows aren’t worth highs - not in love. Not in something where the most important thing is to feel safe.

Consistency is underrated.’

‘The drive, the insistent need to find and collect books, was everything she was. But once she had them all, what would she do with them?’

I know it’s not about literal *books*, but I relate to this a bit too intensely.

‘She existed, and she searched for books. She had an insatiable hunger for the books, a hole inside her that could only be filled by acquiring more of them. Sometimes, when she had to, she ate and she slept, but eating in particular was a chore to her.’