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I’m so curious where this book is going bc rn I have no clue

“They are happy to believe I forgot how they maimed me.” Oh my god

The top review that’s like “whole family gay as hell” makes so much sense now BAHAHAHHAA

God what a sweet memory I SQUEALEDDDDDD
“Sometimes I wouldn't be able to contain a giggle and she would jump back into a sleeping position, her eyes shut tight with a big mischievous smile on her face. I'd kiss her forehead or her shoul-der, whichever part was closest to me, and she would hum cozily, lovingly, as if I were the one who had decided to be tender all of a sudden.”

Unexpected wlw lovers, this book just got even better

The opening is insaje

“History is a silent recordof people who could not leave, it is a record of those wno did not have a choice, you cannot leave when you have nowhere to go and have not the means to go there, you cannot leave when your children cannot get a passport, cannot go when your feet are rooted in the earth and to leave means tearing off your feet.”

“they take something from you and replace it with silence and you're confronted by that silence every waking moment and cannot live…but the silence doesn't end, you see, they leave open the possibility that what you want will be returned some day and so you remain reduced, paralysed, dull as an old knife, and the silence does not end because the silence is the source of their power”

I actually got so emotional reading one of the passages…the fact that they are literally snatching people up without due process in this country is so fucked up

“She realized with a start what she was doing and where she was doing it and whom she was doing it with, and she knew she should feel ashamed, but all she felt was the heaving of Kath's chest against hers, and the tenderness of her lips where Kath had kissed her.” SCREAMING AND KICKING MY FEET

“In her imagination, Tommy had been like a matinee idol—sweet-faced and tender. In reality, Tommy was a woman made of flesh and blood, and that frightened Lily most of all.”

project at work finally wrapped up and now I can read again 🙂‍↕️ I haven’t read a YA book in a long time lol and it does feel YA

“When I talked to my therapist about drinking or past sexual experiences, she'd say, Well, how do you feel about it. I'd say, Oh, it doesn’t matter how I feel, it's what they think about it. I stated this like fact. She said, It is impossible to live under that level of scrutiny.” Goodness gracious my therapist will be hearing from me

Had to look up to see if Chanel was a Taurus but she’s a Gemini. Still there is so much of her I see in myself.

“I had unlocked the secret of the game; this was not a quest for justice but a test of endurance.”

“Pain, when examined closely, became clarity.”