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“But they were quiet daggers offered up at an altar they imagined they’d built.” pg. 26

“She said their hair was braided together. One of them looking forward and the other backward.” pg. 13
Reminds me of that folk-saying about when standing on the shoulders of their ancestral women.

I think I know where this book is going…only took me 200 pages

Yuengling reference! Pottsville represent 🤝🏼

“This is the magic of family. The sense that you’re not alone in the universe, in your body, because there’s someone else out there who shares your DNA, who’s made up of the same stuff you’re made of. I haven’t seen Helen in years, but I saw her earlier in the mirror. We don’t know each other, but we do.”

“‘Mo better book ends than two walls.’”

The vanity of self-loathing

“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince people he didn’t even exist…”

“…and then he releases a single choked cry, steeped in realization and disgust and horror at what he’s discovered, this kind of halving of himself, who he was before he stepped into this room and who he is now…” - pg. 53

Can I read 17 books in 18 days? Don’t touch that dial.

“She could fall asleep right there. But a woman who wakes up at her kitchen table is not right for this world.” lol

“When the first smartphone was launched by Apple in 2007, it was a kind of mass extinction event for a vast range of analog products…”

“Thanks to our custom of marking out our lives by the possessions that we own, and our continuing preference for passing them on to our descendants…”

“Television introduced advertising, made stars and celebrities, and homogenized culture…The rate of change was accelerating at an extraordinary pace.”

“What is double-love divided by triple-my-size multiplied by free tickets divided by careless words?”

“Maybe no one else would inspire me to be so stupid. Maybe I’d exhausted passion. Maybe I’d go on to live a boring, lonely, practical life. Maybe this was it, my only chance, or maybe it wasn’t, but it ruined me. Maybe I was numb.”

I am convinced the house in this story is the Madonna Inn.

“I’m being a bitch today. Judgmental. The four of us bring it out in one another. They aren’t here yet, but they’re close enough. When we’re all together, we can be downright evil.”

“Father had re-named her on their marriage. Like a pet…If he’d given her a choice in anything, he’d been the one who decided what she could choose from.”

“The problem must have been these richies were old and soft. They’d gotten lazy, the way richies always did…”

“…Frank had the sudden, inexplicable feeling that he was sneaking into some massive, living organism—giving a dinosaur a colonoscopy or something.”

“How much pain is caused by hiding pain from others?”

“…because the nighttime is the right time to cruise the Panic Attack Expressway, baby, keep your useless foot on the gas and let’s crash into that wall at the very end…”

wow pages 234-238! Some of the best writing!!

“Nobody hides like tears, she realizes. We could learn a thing or two from them.”