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Wait! I didn’t realize Aunt Lois was Cora’s mom’s sister

“ each step brings her closer to the answer. Delilah wanted her to see, and each steps she wants to know less and less. As long as Cora doesn’t know, she can keep all the fear and rage trapped inside the cage of her heart, doesn’t have to decide what to do with it. Because when it’s gone, the last piece of Delilah will be gone too”

It feels extremely eerie, considering what happened w/Uncle Sherrod last night, to read a line, such as:

“Delilah didn’t know she was gonna die. It’s not something people know, ahead of time, for the most part. Yet Cora feels like she’s tight rope, walking on the edge of something, especially when her breath comes tight and she sees shapes of light dancing in the corner of her eyes.“

“ Luckily, they are very good at cleaning.”

“Never wanted to trust in something beyond herself? Cora would make the perfect member of any religion, the kind of person who doesn't want to decide, who wants a textbook to tell her what to do. But Cora has always kept that kind of unwavering trust reserved…. Delilah has always been Cora's God...Even now, with Delilah dragged down to some sort of hell, or purgatory, Cora is still following her.”

“Cora wonders what it must be like to be Harvey, to switch in and out of realities so easily, to think about pineapple cakes after escaping a flock of hungry ghosts. Cora is perpetually trapped in her one broken world.”

⚡️🪄 “ Cora wants to believe in him, wants him to whip some magic spell out of his backpack that was soft all their problems. But as she looks at the trinkets and sack of rice slumped over on the ground, she agrees that it all seems like child’s play.”

The “ghostbusters” have really lost their mind…

“This is the difference between Yifei and Cora—Yifei turns her pain into a plan, while Cora scrubs her pain away with Blood Busted. Cora is aware all at once that she should be the one fighting. She’s the one who sister died because of people like the one Harvey calls Batman. All that anger should be hers…Cora cannot fathom her actions mattering beyond her own mind.”

IKTR, Yifei!