Marina’s Reviews > Elphie: A Wicked Childhood > Status Update

"She has no appetite for friendship and she wants no obligations of affection.
The past promises us nothing but this: it will abandon us. Leave us orphaned. Unless we abandon it first."


terminei de ler e realmente nao sei o que pensar

“Why should I interest you?”
“You’re an idea,” says Neri-neri, “that I didn’t have before I saw you. Ideas make us jump. They shift us from before to after. I don’t know who or what you are, or why you look like a walking edge of the jungle, but my sense of who I am changes now because of you. You don’t have to teach me anything—what’s your name?—you don’t have to be anything but yourself.”

"She will think of herself as having adored Nessarose and cared for her sister always. She will mourn Nessa’s death without recognizing that guilt is part of the chemical composition of grief."

ta sendo tortura ler essa porra de livro mas terei que terminar pra poder falar com propriedade

"No one else of significance, unless you pick up on the thin pleated cry of a baby annoyance. Elphie often forgets about that one, hanging in a tree. They call her Nessarose. A pretty name for a pretty sorry scrap of child."