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Beck is trans

Beck has synesthesia

A lot here about choice and agency and holding onto hope and survival when apathy and surrender start to feel inevitable.

This was amazing. I’m still not sure how I so badly misinterpreted what this book was about but I’m glad I figured it out and will blame author event nerves. Fun to read. Stella audio. Just a good read all around. Can’t wait to see how it all comes together!

His kindness didn’t come in the form of gentle words but in *doing*.

Do not ask how many times he falls but how many times he rises.

Why is it that people are content to know that a huge, terrifying fate has been dumped in my lap by a bunch of people who see the fucking future, but when it comes down to seeing that fate realized, they're suddenly too spooked to do anything to bring it about?

Time cannot run backwards for any of us.

Defy the Stars

Elegy doesn’t want her suffering to mean that much.

I so rarely get anything I want.

We do not all love equally well.

Seek the traitor’s son!

We can’t guarantee we’ll be right. But we have to pick a path anyway.

Never burn a bridge that’s still getting you somewhere.

My life is still yours.

How could anyone do something to me that I didn’t want?

Oooof

Survive instead. Live, so you can go home.

Remember, this violence is a kindness. Maeve doesn’t want to die alone. You bearing the horror of it for her, it’s a profound gift.

I don’t ask for things I know I won’t get.

Blame isn’t a precious resource, to be stored up and given to the one person who really deserves it. It’s a thrashing many-headed monster, big and mean and sprawling.

Lies serve neither the speaker nor the listener.

Perfect equality is nearly impossible—and even if it wasn’t, it certainly wouldn’t apply to him and her.

Oh wow. Four years later.

We are not guaranteed infinite choices in this life.

This was a crazy ride. I loved it. Amazing audio production. You can see how every book Albert has written up to this point was building to writing this one.

How we fight them matters.