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Not Kai’s literal “you’re not like most girls, are you?”

He is not smooth with it at all 😭

“Because of the gospel, our work becomes the expression of our identity and not the source of it.”

""I've never seen anyone play hockey like you, my friend. I can't bear having to live the rest of my life wondering how good you could have been if you hadn't given up."
He'll never forget how Benji looks just then: inquisitive eyes and messy hair in an old campervan. A gentle heart. An outstretched hand."

THIS. 🥹

"In the years that followed Peter kept his promise: he led the club that helped Kevin Erdahl become the best player the town had ever seen, taught him that he was invincible, that he should never tolerate defeat. Or the word no."

This did not age well 😭

So ready to be emotionally demolished once again, this series is my Roman Empire

"But what do we do when both our worlds are dark?
We do what you said. We both go out and see it. We defy the dark. When we might want to bury our heads under a pile of blankets and shut the world out—we venture into that very world. Climb a hill, a rise, a peak. Find the moon when it's big and full. And we look it full in the face. Midnight my time, ten o'clock yours, next full moon."

The plot thickens ...

"He thinks writing is also a kind of war, one you fight with yourself. The story is what you carry and every time you add to it, it gets heavier.
All over the world there are half-finished books—memoirs, poetry, novels, surefire plans for getting thin or getting rich—in desk drawers, because the work got too heavy for the people trying to carry it."

I was considering DNFing this book, but picked this up again, and, well, who knew a sniper waiting around for his target could be this intriguing?

"Many of us will just look back on these months and remember ... the hatred. Because that's how we function, for better or worse: we always define different periods by their worst moments."

“Zackell’s face is expressionless. Sune had to tell her not to smoke her cigar in front of the child. Zackell seemed to have difficulty understanding if that was because it was a bad thing in and of itself or if the child was trying to give up smoking and didn’t want to be tempted.”

I don’t know why this made me laugh out loud, but it did

“He thinks briefly of deleting everything he’s written, it’s awful, but saves it instead. He doesn’t know what anyone else might think, but Billy thinks it’s good. And good that it’s awful, because awful is sometimes the truth.”

"I hope you're one of the people who gets a happy ending." 😭

Buddy-reading with my brother!

(We're also not going to talk about the fact that this is my second time reading this book this year)

This is making me want to bake marshmallow brownies now… 😆

"He knows how quiet it gets when hockey tells you you're finished. How quickly you start to miss the ice, the locker room, the guys, the bus trips, the gas-station sandwiches. He knows how as a seventeen-year-old he would look at the tragic former players in their forties who used to hang around the rink going on about their own achievements in front of an audience that got smaller and smaller each season."

Oh great, Arikawa's making me cry over fictional cats again 😅

The plot twist is CRAZY, my goodness 😅