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A Curse So Dark and Lonely (Cursebreakers, #1), by Brigid Kemmerer

I shake my head. “Even if we empty the castle of food at every meal, every single day, it would not feed all of my subjects.” Her voice is quiet. “It would feed some of them, Rhen.” “Yes, but not all.” I look over at her. “How would you choose?”

Rhen wants SO BADLY to help his people, but he looks at the world in a very "all or nothing" way, so I loved having Harper counter this with wanting to help the people she could, in the moment she could do it. There's something universal to this, I think. Sometimes everything seems hopeless, and we do nothing because we can't solve the whole problem. But we CAN solve a tiny part of the problem, and that's OK too.

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09 Nov 19 · Flag

Melliott

This is a big part of why this book works so well—that focus on "what can we do here, now?" People in the world need to read that and think, Oh! Right! I can do something too.

10 Nov 19 · Flag

Satangan

This part reminds me of the thinking of either there is all or nothing. But, it is important to think about those people who you can save, rather than exhausting yourself or if you can't save them all…

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