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“In fact, we do not suffer from a deficit of attention. Just the opposite. We got an over abundance of attention. More attention than we can cope with. Our constant challenge is to control it.”

oh….

“I could protect you only if you asked me to.” - ianthe.
“I would rather have my tendons pulled from my body one by one and flossed to shreds over my broken bones. I would rather be flayed alive and wrapped in salt. I would rather have my own digestive acid dripped into my eyes.” - Harrow
“So what I’m hearing is — maybe?” - Ianthe

This book is already off to a great start.

“I cannot conceive of a universe without you in it.”-Harrow.
“Yes you can, it’s just less great and less hot.” -Gideon

“Harrow, if my heart had a dick you would kick it.” Simply put, this book is already 5 stars for me.

“but astrology is the great lesbian elixir!”

I fear this book will finish me before I can finish it

“No ones focused on how we’re all connected. We only think about how we suffer, individually. The poor and middle-class of this country don’t realize they have more in common with us than they do with Westminster.”
“…the rabbit dies, and the fox grieves, for they’re animals of a kind…got to convince them that we’re not their prey. That there’s a hunter in the forest and we’re all in danger.”

“…. It’s a war happening in a foreign land that they can’t even imagine. It’s too distant for them to care.”
“What makes you so sure of that?”
“Because I didn’t… I didn’t, even though I’d been told time and time again how awful things were. It took witnessing it happening in person…. Even then, I tried my hardest to look away. It’s hard to accept what you don’t want to see.”

“History isn’t a premade tapestry that we’ve got to suffer, a closed world with no exit.”