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"(we) didn't have anyone to tell, ma'am. we were naked in a box. not the SAME box, mind..."

it's always frustrating when an answer that is deeply obvious to you isn't being realized by the characters, even though we all have the same information lol

"red may be mad, but to die for madness is to die for something."

"sometimes you have to hold a person, though they'll mistake embrace for strangulation."

"all good stories travel from the outside in."

"fortunately, geniuses understand that young men are often fools." lmao

i'm in awe, honestly

"people are often damned fools about what's before them. and not much smarter regarding what's behind them, at that. it's amazing we ever get anything done."

we love an autistic queen

@ the library gods: please let my hold for book 2 come in tomorrow

who tf is din and why is he like this 👀

this book is sherlock holmes if sherlock was an old woman who loved to swear and crack jokes, and also there were kaiju. i'm having so much fun

the MC is truly so fucking stupid

"we all live in a kind of continuous dream. when we wake, it is because something, some event, some pinprick even, disturbs the edges of what we've taken as reality."
"am i a pinprick then, disturbing the edges of your reality, ghost bird?"

"perhaps my only real expertise, my only talent, is to endure beyond the endurable." fUCK

"the very idea of GUN now seemed as pathetic and useless as the word SAMPLE. both implied aiming at something. what was there to aim at?"

i suspect this is the kind of book that will end up giving you zero answers to anything because it wants you to draw your own conclusions

"that's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality."

this is exactly my brand of "wtf, this is creepy"

"(...) when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. desolation tries to colonize you."

lisa see really said "fuck you, meiling. yunxian has to be the ultimate victim in this book" get a fucking grip

justice for meiling

this might actually be my favorite emily henry book now

these two pretending like they haven't been in love with the other person for 12 years is gonna make me start chewing on the drywall

why did no one tell me how autistic this man is? i would have read this book years ago. it's literally the only emily henry book i didn't read right after its release

girl...

"she had to keep moving forward. then. now. always. if she stopped moving forward, she would die, so maggie just walked faster."

"she needed to know if it was okay to hope because maggie had learned a long time ago that hope was the most dangerous emotion. it had been ripped from her and used against her. it had torn her to shreds a dozen times and she wasn't going to do that to herself if she could help it. she wouldn't survive it."

i'm not convinced i'm reading the same book as the rest of my bookclub. "it's a silly goofy time, but we're not gonna have much to talk about at the meeting" "it annoys me that the MC is shy and awkward cause it's the only way writers know how to make women quirky". hey so like... are we all just ignoring the fact that the MC is an abuse survivor? and lost both her parents at a young age? &that's why she's like that?