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"You think this is revenge. That Will's having then target you because you didn't help him out. Is that why Butler thought one of them had a crush on you?" "No, that's just because I'm a girl. Isn't that what adults always think when you complain about treatment by boys?" Dang, isn't that the truth of sexual harrassment?

Lots of sneaky puns in this one!

I'm really getting invested in the life and times of an Assistant Pig Keeper.

I have been waiting on this audiobook a veryyyyy long time from the library! I could never imagine reading it without the narrator's voices.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer had, through his life's writings and now his deeds, reframed the Christian life through a lens of action. He called for a radical obedience that was not cheap but costly. Fath wasn't just about creating a set of comforting thoughts about God; it was living out an ethic that called for sacrifice. You didn't just pray for the ranks to stop rolling, you three yourself in front of them.

If the church, in this moment, did not exist to protect the other, it had no right to be called the church at all.

"To delay or fail to make decisions may be more sinful than to make wrong decisions out of faith and love."

Rome had shown Dietrich the spiritual power of community. Frank Fisher had shown him what persecution felt like in Harlem and in the American South. ... But what could he do? How could the church - the true church, not the one dressed up in Nazi flags -respond?

A wave of nationalism swept over Germany. Nationalism is an extreme form of patriotism rooted in feelings of superiority to others, especially towards those who seem different.

Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result.

To me, Southside was as big as heaven. And heaven, as I envisioned it, had to be a place full of jazz.

- What do you want to be when you grow up? -
As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that's the end.
>> So far, off to a strong start!

I appreciate the amount of time passage that happens in her books, it's not instant, overnight, undeveloped lust. They're actual paths to finding oneself and the relationships you develop along the way, and sometimes the ones that you write off really can work.

I'm so pissed at the main female, blahhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Will I finish the series, Idk.

So I'm really sad that I've not gotten into this book and when I return it to the library... I won't try it again.

"She wears life like Elvis wore sequins, with no apology laced into the seams."
I LOVE it

I'm super loving this so far, Eltiron's auntie Vandi is my favorite so far.

"She walked quickly through the darkness with the frank stride of someone who was at least certain that the forest, on this damp and windy night, contained strange and terrible things and she was it."

This book is bloody bonkers and weirdly fun.

"Israel pushed the bacon and sausage around on his plate, warding off temptation and damnation and started in on the soda bread and potato bread"

So this book is technically 2 books, the first section is the story and the next section is the real world fall out of reading the book.
Horowitz is such a strong story teller.

I'm so excited to start this book, as I've loved the other two of his, House of Silk & Moriarty. I hope to finish today.

I seriously thought I had skipped a book or three, there's such a time lapse, couples have formed, married, and there's no real backstory to explain how it all came about