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“You’ve always hated me. Why?” His eyes harden into flint. “Because,” he says, “everyone else loves you.”

I do feel like Keith is just TOO mustache twirling villainy. Like I don’t doubt a boss would really hate a female employee this misogynistically. I just doubt he’d (a) be self-aware enough to identify this as the reason and (b) be quite as I AM PREJUDICED AGAINST YOU explicit in the workplace.

“I look at Delilah’s smiling face. Flushed cheeks. Red lips. She’s looking at me like she believes I can do this, and it makes me think that maybe I can. Maybe I can flatten the curled-up edges of myself. Maybe old wounds don’t have to hurt so bad. Maybe I can move past them into something new, better, different.”

“Storms typically develop out of low-pressure systems. In a low-pressure system, air from higher-pressure areas moves down toward the low, and as air rises and cools, any moisture in it condenses, forming clouds. The greater the difference in pressures, often, you know, the bigger the storms.”

I was actually interested to learn about this, WEATHERFACTS! lol

“I am this way because of you, I want to snap. I want to twist my words like knives until they hurt. You made me this way. Utterly reliant on systems and routines and habits so I can fucking breathe.”

It surprises me knowing that Jackson and Delilah are going to be End Game, bc given his trauma and family history I’d think he’d run very far from Pixie Sunshine Girl. I’m interested to see how it unfolds.