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This might be the best fight scene I've ever read

النسخة المترجمة مش موجودة على غودريدز، بكره أنه لازم أحسب عدد الصفحات نسبة وتناسب بكل مرة رح أعمل فيها أبديت🫪
+ I heard this book is devastating, and I'm already not feeling good😍

The writing style somehow makes the story dull, even though it has the potential to be very emotional

Picked this up at a secondhand bookstore on a whim, thinking I’d stumbled upon a hidden gem since I’d never heard of the book or the author. Turned out it has over 300 thousand ratings, so maybe it's not objectively hidden (but it feels like a personal gem to me at least🏃🏻‍♀️)

I'm bored what's going on

No one speaks to me. I can't get enough of this series, so... it's time to reread YAAAYYAYAYYAAAYAYYA

I find it funny that the FMC is supposed to be a premed dropout, yet she still doesn't know what edema or hemolytic anemia are 👀. The author could have explained medical terms through the FMC’s internal thoughts instead, or just given her a different background entirely.

Or maybe I'm just being picky...🫣

This so-called therapist is DERANGED

I’ve watched a few commentary videos about this family channel and how their mother used to treat her kids, but I really want to learn more! I hate family channels and want to criticize them even more after reading this book.

"Immigrants are supposed to be grateful. The narrative arc of immigration, in which one flees their own failing society to come to a better place, a country that was under no obligation to accept them but did, demands perpetual gratitude"

"We say that, sometimes, when it’s our children killed: Remember. And it may seem now like it’s someone else’s children, but there’s no such thing as someone else’s children. The problem with fixating on the abyss into which one’s opponent has descended while simultaneously digging one’s own is that, eventually, it gets too dark to tell the difference."

"It appears on talk shows and atop opinion pieces stating, euphemistically or not, that the same world in which you can buy avocados all year round and your iPhone keeps getting more powerful and you never have to live in fear of an occupying force obliterating your family with missiles is the world in which an insignificant group of people you’ll never meet simply have to die."

"to see so plainly the destruction, the murdered children filmed and presented for the world to look upon and then to hear the leaders of virtually every Western nation contend that this is not happening, that whatever is happening is good and righteous and should continue and that in fact the well-being of the Palestinian people demands this continue—it’s enough to feel like you’re losing your mind."

"The argument in favor of voting for the lesser evil is frequently made in good faith, by people who have plenty to lose should the greater evil win. But it also establishes the lowest of benchmarks: Want my vote? Be less monstrous than the monsters."
That's an interesting perspective. I often choose the lesser of two evils. I hope the author proposes a solution because, in reality, politics is inherently problematic

"It is a reminder that, in times like these, one remarkable difference between the modern Western conservative and their liberal counterpart is that the former will gleefully sign their name on the side of the bomb while the latter will just sheepishly initial it."

"The violence is named, as is its perpetrator. Why this sudden clarity becomes utter fog when the subject is an Arab child torn to shreds by shrapnel or a Black motorist shot dead in a traffic stop or an Indigenous activist beaten at a pipeline protest is a function of preemptive deference to power."

"And at every moment of arrival the details and the body count may differ, but in the marrow there is always a commonality: an ambitious, upright, pragmatic voice saying, Just for a moment, for the greater good, cease to believe that this particular group of people, from whose experience we are already so safely distanced, are human."

"Once far enough removed, everyone will be properly aghast that any of this was allowed to happen. But for now, it’s just so much safer to look away, to keep one’s head down, periodically checking on the balance of polite society to see if it is not too troublesome yet to state what to the conscience was never unclear."

"One of the hallmarks of Western liberalism is an assumption, in hindsight, of virtuous resistance as the only polite expectation of people on the receiving end of colonialism. While the terrible thing is happening—while the land is still being stolen and the natives still being killed—any form of opposition is terroristic and must be crushed for the sake of civilization."

Things are going too well too soon. I wonder what the third act breakup will entail, as at this moment, I see no reason for conflict

The book has been leading up to this moment for over 650 pages. I'm not ready 👀

This sounds like everything I like in a romance book

فراس delulu حبيبي اصحى من جنون العظمة اللي عندك🫶🏻 المشكلة حاسة إنه الكاتبة مقتنعة إنه منيح وبدها ايانا نحبه🫪؟

A plot twist for the sake of having a plot twist. I don't know if I like this