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this book is really, really good

"It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff, now; so he shall never know how I love him; and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same, and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire."

I thought I knew what was going to happen because I know what happens in Les Mis… but that plot twist came out of nowhere

HOW - I did not expect this book to be so good

wait this book is actually so good already 👀

"What he'd learned right after DNA, isotopes, and protozoans was that he couldn't breathe without her."

Slowly, she unraveled each word of the sentence: "'There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.'"
"Oh," she said. "Oh."
"You can read, Kya. There will never be a time again when you can't read."
"It ain't just that." She spoke almost in a whisper. "I wadn't aware that words could hold so much. I didn't know a sentence could be so full."

"Our family has always loved fairy tales. There is something ugly and true in them. They hurt, they are strange, but we cannot stop reading them, over and over."