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"Weren't that somethin? Weren't she somethin? Just look at her! Perched in the middle of such awful danger and still havin herself a blast. And maybe the mountain didn't at once toss her into oblivion because it too was enjoyin the show."

End of Part One! I love these 3 crazy kids and 4 beautiful horses!

"Sure, yes, maybe it was just Landry woolgatherin, head in the clouds, rocks in her head. Maybe it was that wink in her heart again to just dare somethin insensible. Or not. Maybe this time it was Kalin, this boy catchin up with her now, who'd already made for her lifetimes out of hours."

MZD is up to his experimental ways in this section and it's good, so good. Also there was an exciting autopsy.

"Curiously, in the moments before his death, Cavalry's mind in the crucible of all that awful pain, ... Cavalry still found for an instant that moment of peace and freedom when he was with, of all people, young Russel, the two of them just ridin along, free from the past, free from the future, free."

Fuck you, MZD.

Finally, 200 pages in -- only a thousand more to go!

"Kalin couldn't say what unsettled him more: the now obvious deadness of his dear friend or that even in death the dead might still know fear."

This is going to be the best book I read in 2026.

Yeehaw.

"Stories are a rebalancin of injustice, whether enacted within their narrative or purposed to enact certain reactions by the listeners. Stories are the lexical fashionins of vengeance. At least the good ones are."

"We were nothing to you, Nurman continues. Faceless, nameless nothings, numbers, not people. But each life that was taken, each child on those trucks, each man drowned in a water trough, each small boy shot in front of his father, each one of those people had a name."

"In Feminine Forever, Dr. Wilson wrote that a period was a 'token of femininity.' Yes, a menstrual period was a curse until menopause--when it becomes a blessing and a sign of being desirable to men. This constant moving of the goal posts is enraging. A woman's body can simply never be just right."

I'm so surprised by how readable and informative this book is-- my gyn recommended it to me during my last appt.

Proulx's missing serial commas are driving me crazy.

"Oliver Rackham wrote truthfully that the history of wetlands is the history of their destruction."

Part 2

Look, I've got mixed feelings about bringing so many Hunger Games characters into this book, which I'll write about in my review, but I'll never be mad about using Caesar Flickerman in here.