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“I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times.”

It is easy, isn't it, in retrospect?
To spot the cracks. To see them spread.

“No, I did have a husband once.”
“How did he die?”
“Slowly.”

“Careful. In nature, beauty is a warning. The pretty ones are often poisonous.”

“Because it hurts to be human, I’m sure. Hurts to be reminded what you don’t have anymore. Better to erase yourself bit by bit, until you are only what you need in the present moment. We all do it. Even the living.”

“And so perhaps it was entirely possible — common, even — for you to look into the eyes of someone you’d been falling in love with, someone you had spent every waking moment with, whose breathing sounded as familiar as your own — and fail to recognize them at all.”

“As Aristotle put it, complete happiness was some for of study.”

The first chapters of this book read like I’m starting a new video game and it’s giving me the tutorial

Someone plz tell me this gets better ☹️

MINOR SPOILERS DONT READ IF YOU DONT WANNA KNOW - I’m honestly finding it difficult to find rins character believable. She has experienced so much betrayal and separation from people she cares about - yet she’s super on board to trust new people as they appear? Wish we had seen her struggle not just with herself but also with her sense of trust and forming bonds as she continues to be hurt

"Child, the past is past, and furthermore it's different every time I remember it. I'll tell you about the future, the one you will make."

“The only thing he was protecting was his fantasy that he was a good person. She wouldn’t let him have it.”

“I’m the one who saw truth and didn’t look away”