D.T.’s Reviews > Behind Five Willows > Status Update

“I hate how small you make me feel.”

😭😭😭

I know the class issue is a heavy barrier, but he’s literally looking down upon her family right in front of her 🤨

If he couldn’t bother to be amiable, then she refused to try to be pleasant, either.”

His dad is abusive?

"You'll never be friendless. You will never be entirely alone."

"Mundane? Love is the closest thing to the heavens."

There were too many rules a woman had to live by."

Reading was an escape, but writing …

With writing, he could craft a haven for himself. A world where grief for his mother did not drown his father in endless mourning, where his sister’s love story did not end in ruin. Where corruption and brutal interrogation did not crush the innocent and the powerless. A world where children and strays were not swept away by floods, or starved by drought.”

Banned books has always been an issue it seems

"What will remain the same is the people's love for novels. Readers cannot be stopped."

"Novel reading is a dangerous business."