Kindle Notes & Highlights
Tearing them out would be redundant.”
love you too, but not enough. I can never love you enough.
“They’re obsessed with something.” Rue slumped in the chair as Frida slipped a pair of heels onto her feet. “But it’s not me.”
Sometimes life is too interesting.”
she had to make herself super soft to keep him from shattering against her.
I tried to kill myself seven times after Elnora’s death.
Sick in the head, and maybe in a contagious way.
everything’ll be fixed,”
Because Sterling didn’t understand her, and she didn’t have the vocabulary to explain.
There’s photos of the Mayor from a hundred years ago and two hundred years ago and three hundred years ago.
“Did she like people who weren’t human?” “She had a dog when she was a little girl. But it died.”
“Despite how cute some people think hummingbirds are.
“Is this love?” she asked, watching the way their souls had knotted around hers. “Like being tied up, but from the inside?”
Knots could be untied, but a sister, even a pissed off sister, was forever.
A snake for a snake. Of course it was balanced.
“Mama. He can’t bring her back if he’s dead.
“Because Kissy traded Peppermint’s life for yours.” Rue shoved the hatbox at Westwood. He stared at it, then at Karissa peeping in the doorway. “Why such drama? We’ll just bring him back.” Karissa burst into tears. “We will?”
“You have an evil laugh.”
Rue was astounded not only that swapping her for a beetle could make them so happy, but that being the cause of their happiness should please her so.
Rue received a text so absurd, she dismissed it as a cosmic anomaly,
I do love you enough. I love you too much.
A dead bird lay below, soaking her feet and the sheets with its blood.
Because the twins had made the piñata, it writhed in agony, growling and batting its paws
Rue
We don’t need anyone but each other.” He was looking at Rue when he said that last part. Rue, who stood apart, wondering how everything had gone so horribly wrong.
I can’t bring her back and put her in a cooked body.
“The twins eat all the people so I don’t have to.”
Karissa took off her shoe and threw it into the rift, with the same result. “Daddy, I don’t think that’s what it means.”
“But we changed. I wanted her to see that we’d changed.”
