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Cue my heart falling for these two

“every night when I dreamt, I was trying to bring all the pieces back together. I was trying to find my way back to you.”

It’s amazing all of the ways love is shown in this book. There are so many tender, heartfelt, caring moments.

“I know I cannot keep you safe or protect you from the worst of this war. But for now, let me feed you. I know you must be hungry.”

“There shouldn’t be any [….] bombs. You should get to be children, young people, adults who can dream and love and live your lives without all of this horrible mess.”

“…an unexpected wave of emotion struck her chest. She hadn’t cried much the past few weeks. Indeed, she thought she had recovered from most of the trauma she had experienced, letting it hollow her out. But perhaps it had only been buried. Perhaps she had shoved it down to dark forgotten places and it had grown roots while she had been sleeping.”

“How could he mourn something that he couldn’t remember?”

“I see the beauty in what has been but only because I have tasted both sorrow and joy in equal measures.”