Hannah Frederick’s Reviews > Red City > Status Update

Every newscast about it ends with a general public warning that "gas line maintenance is essential!"

I try to remember this as a mother that comfort is more important than being right when your baby is hurting.

"It means perfection," he says. "It means, I like you the way you are, Sam"

With her perfect memory, I'm surprised that she doesn't immediately remember that when she learns the sign for gold.

I'm impressed with the notes before each chapter. Did the author make them all up?

They are surface best friends - not showing personal vulnerabilities.

Is it possible to be best friends if you share nothing personal about their lives?

Talking about the fire cycle is an interesting choice.

I've always envied people who can think outside the box like this. I'm like Ari, giving the answer the teacher is looking for.

The butterfly effect

I like the focus on the soul, this intangible thing and on perfection.

The energy of a soul is a uniquely powerful, fragile and transient thing, imperfect in a way that in organics are not. And once a soul is gone, it can never be restored, rendering the transmutation equation permanently unequal...Imperfection can always move toward perfection; but perfection, like the divine state of moksha, is eternal.

Everything can be more beautiful. And because it has the potential to be more beautiful later, everything suddenly feels less beautiful now.

Fight club rules