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This is going to leave a mark.

Relatable.

“You can fall in love with a person, watching them sleep-and I did. I loved him, already. I hadn't been careful, like I'd intended to be It had happened in spite of me-without my permission. But I didn't tell him. I withheld it. I could feel the words, like physical weight in my mouth, wanting to spill out. But if I said it I wouldn't be able to undo it, and then where would that leave me?”

This went from 0 to 100 mph in less than three pages, flat. We haven’t hit the breaks yet.

“I shake my head. It isn't that I'm nervous of men, not at all. I'm just glad to let them move through the world entirely separate from me. Any man could take a notion to knock me to the ground, to draw blood from me or make a mother of me. Why would I invite one of them around me?”

Whew.

The deeply unfortunate mismarketing of beautifully written novels persists. The atmospheric writing is carrying the “eerie” feelings ON IT’S BACK.

“People often talk about how what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. And I think, sometimes, what doesn’t kill you makes you tired.”

I was worried I might be too stupid to understand what the hell is going on, but I think I’ve got it now.

Best book I’ve read in a minute. Exactly my taste.

☹️

But… But what about winter? WHAT ABOUT WINTER?!?! GUYS?!?!

Reminding myself to respect the process of a slow burn while simultaneously recognizing that I’m not put off by it at all — I am a sucker for historical fiction.