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Really enjoying the witty sarcasm of the MC in this one.

"'Every type of brutality perpetuated by the Germans, in the name of race, is visited upon the Negro in our southland as regularly as he receives his daily bread,' said Vernon Johns."

Girl... speak up. Sigh.

Omg everyone just needs to shut up and listen to Sky! They're all just doing what they think is best for her, but no one is listening to what she wants. Grrrr.

"A typical source of strain occurs in authority systems when the person in authority is incompetent to the point of endangering the subordinates."

Oof.

"Many of the actions that individuals take in daily life, which appear to them to flow from inner moral qualities, are no doubt similarly prompted by authority."

Hoo boy. Such food for thought.

"It is psychologically easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of evil action but is far from the final consequence of the action."

"(Also, for the record, if someone is called a Romantic, it should mean some sexy times, I think. Instead, what it really means is people in puffy shirts who probably had a lot of real-life sexytimes, but produced almost exclusively pictures of hillsides or people in dramatic poses, like pretending to be Ophelia dead in a swamp. I definitely call shenanigans on this.)

This book is exactly what I needed to read right now.

This book is magical.

Thank you to Skye for sending this to me! So excited.

"Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure."

This is a sip and savor sort of book.