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"You're growing up... Sometimes I think the world tests us most sharply then, and we turn inward and watch ourselves with horror. But that's not the worst... Try to believe that things are neither so good nor so bad as they seem to you now." (p491)

Forever thanking Lee's wisdom for carrying me through early adulthood.

"Adam," he said. "I am incomparably, incredibly, overwhelmingly glad to be home. I've never been so goddamn lonesome in my life." (p419)

I haven't read this book in months (kept putting it off bc I couldn't bear the thought of finishing it). And yet! On the first sentence, it feels like homecoming. 🥲

I really need to finish this behemoth before the year ends

"But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed—because 'Thou mayest.'" (p306)