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“Women stay with men who treat them like dirt under their boots. I’m not sure whether that’s from fear or love, but they stay. They stick around because they love the mean old bastards and hope he will change one day. Love is not always a good thing. It can feel really good when it’s good, but when it’s bad, well, it can kill you.”

“Regrets are the instruments by which we learn. We tend not to repeat the mistakes we truly regret. They may cause us pain, but regrets push us to better our lives. [...] We may be troubled by our regrets, but we don't carry them for the rest of our lives. Instead they become milestones, honor badges that remind us how we've grown.”

“But everything is set up in this world for extroverts. Being someone who likes to be alone gets you labeled a hermit. Or stuck-up or boring.” - true

“Far better to be disliked for who she truly was rather than what she represented.”

“Since coming to Japan, he had heard the phrase “a woman's boobs are filled with the hopes and dreams of men” and he finally understood why someone had invented such a phrase. Indeed, these pneumatic knockers were the stuff dreams were made of.”

why do they have to always talk about women this way? it ruins my reading experience so bad... how are boobs this important to the story?

“Sometimes friendships didn't break in some big dramatic way. Sometimes they just dried out, curled up like a leaf on the ground, and turned to dirt. Like all things inevitably did.”

“Bookshelves! That was the most perfect thing anyone had ever offered her. Better than jewels or a feast or a palace.”

“I can't lose books; I'd lose me.”

“Caz? Are you ever lonely?”
“How can I be? I have books.”

“If everyone living failed her, whenever they did, she had all the immortal voices caught in pages.”

“So, tell me what's a weed and what isn't.”
“There's no such thing as a weed. That's a cruel term made up by people who label some plants as 'unwanted' and some as 'valuable,' as if the worth of a living thing is measured by how useful it is to another living thing. As if a plant can't have its own intrinsic worth.”

“It wasn't that she didn't like people. It was only that she liked books more. They didn't fuss or judge or mock or reject. They invited you in, fluffed up the pillows on the couch, offered you tea and toast, and shared their hearts with no expectation that you'd do anything more than absorb what they had to give.”

“A movie—any movie, even one that fails—is a conversation with the viewer who chooses to engage.”

“I’m not going to hurt you.” His breath stirred the hair around my temple. “I just want to talk.”
I bit his hand.
He let out a low hiss, wrapping his hand around my throat. He pressed his fingers in, forcing my head back. “Biting can be a lot of fun, but only when it’s appropriate. And that wasn’t appropriate.”
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“It’s just, what happens when you die isn’t a thing you can talk about. It’s not a place that exists where I can just describe the color of the sky and the whoosh of the water and the subtle hue of violet in the flowers in bloom. It’s more like being drownt and you seeing everything through icy water.”

“You know it’s love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.”

“The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.”

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”

“Books matter more to her than who is reading them or where they are being read. A good book can be a light in the darkness. A good book can cure loneliness, change minds, or even change the world. A good book is nothing less than magic.”

“Time is luck. You grab it. You hold on tight. And you be there. You have to be there for it. It’s going, with or without you. And no one knows for how long. No one knows.”

"Give me an order again," I say, "and I will show you true shame. Locke's games will be as nothing to what I make you do."

YES, GO JUDE !!

ok they are both fucked up

cardan is one conceited and rude ass bitch???

i can't decide whether to keep going with the story or dnf. i don't care for the characters at all nor do i care about the story itself. this is so awful but i don't wanna have unfinished books in my bookshelf :(

"you're stupid about a lot of things, Wylan, but you are not stupid. and if i ever hear you call yourself a moron again, i'm going to tell Matthias you tried to kiss Nina. with tongue."

i swear Jesper never fails to make me laugh 😂😂

i feel like nothing really else is happening throughout the story... no plot twists, no more intrigues apart from the abduction (as in who's responsible), it's just so repetitive smh

damn i feel so bad for ethan... can lila act any worse??? if they don't end up like a truthful couple at the end of this book, i'm gonna smash it against the wall