Feli Bell’s Reviews > Death in Her Hands > Status Update

“Charlie, my fool, wagged his tail and came forward, as if the gloved hand were going to reach through the open window and pet him. I could picture that gloved hand closing in around Magda’s pale, thin throat.”

Mmhhhhmm Okaahyy

“There was something that must have happened to the ground once it became a place where someone died, where a living soul took a final breath.”

Just like the imagery.

“[…] even if it were just in my imagination”

But does she really accept the fact it is all in her head. But is it?
Harry: "Tell me one last thing," said Harry. "Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?"Dumbledore: "Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"

“I’d been young once. So many dreams had been dashed. But I dashed them myself. I wanted to be safe, whole, have a future of certainty. One makes mistakes when there is confusion between having a future at all and having the future one wants.”

Similar to the fig tree analogy, but perceived in the aftermath. When all the opportunities/ figs already faded away

“I’d never been jealous of a young woman’s looks. For me,it was like seeing a cute little squirrel”

Just liked the comparison

“From the little I knew of her, I already liked her”

The protagonist imagined everything, except the name, about Magda. She also feels a kind of protective over Magda, sees herself in a mother role.

“I still needed a strong male lead. Someone in his mid to late forties, a kind of Harrison Ford type.“

Harrison Ford mentioned

“Yes, a writer needs some direction, some wisdom and knowledge about the mystery she is writing.”

micro feminism

“Reminders will only trouble those who live on. They’ll have to waste their own lives cleaning up yours. It was like Magdas dead body was some candy-bar wrapper littering the sidewalk”

She’s already so attached to Magda and projects herself on Magda.