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DNF

I'm not having a good time

"his liquid brown eyes"

We were innocent enough to think that our lives were what we thought they were, that if we pieced all the facts about ourselves together they'd form an image that made sense-that looked like us when we were in the mirror, that looked like our living rooms and our kitchens and the people who raised us- instead of revealing all the things we didn't know."

"When I think of all of us then, I see how we were in danger. Not because of the drinking or the sex or the hour of the night. But because we were so innocent and we didn't even know it. There's no way of getting it back. The confidence. The laughter. The sensation of having left home only for a little while. Of having a home to return to...

this book is genuinely hard to put down.

I love the scene with the grandfather and sister josephine.
""We were nostalgic for a time that wasn't yet over" page 23

you're so close you're almost done just keep going