Fernanda Ramirez’s Reviews > Magnolia Parks: Into the Dark > Status Update

So if you feel lost some days, and you don’t know who you are and you don’t feel like you’re theirs, like ‘Parks’ is just a name you happen to share with them, just remember that I know who you are, and you’re my sister, and that’s my name too.

This is what it will always be, and you might feel like you’re on the back good because they haven’t given you a road map and they don’t seem at interested in drawing you up one either, and I know that knowing you, tou will find it incredibly hard to then accept them in any way as actual parents, and so you’ll probably feel lost for most of your life

But you see, the thing about stars is that in another galaxy, that star is also a sun

Pages 344-346 might be some of the best writing I’ve ever read. God I love this series

I do ever so love to use a man’s own words against him

You’re all here yo bury the smartest girl, the sharpest shooter in the whole wide world. But I’m burying my guiding light

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

They were crying because death is scary and uncomfortable and highlights certain things within ourselves that without the threat of mortality pressing in on our consciousness, we’d otherwise ignore, but those such things demand attention at a funeral. Mortality doesn’t just press against you, it body slams you to the floor

You do so want it to be raining on the day of a funeral, so wonderfully melancholy, and yet there we were, the church all lit up spectacular by the fucking ever bright sun, casting all of London’s high society in a glowy light that none of us deserve because light like this is reserved specifically and exclusively for my sister and BJ alone.

I think death brushes up against on everyone at some point or another, but it’s properly danced with me. Grabbed me by the hand, spun me, dipped me, taught me to waltz. I knew life through the prism of loss, secretly at first, but now it’s colored my world.

I turned on the shower and the room fogged up quickly because I suppose the world got colder the moment Bridget left it😭