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'She remembered herself in love, and that memory glowed with a blue flame behind her thoughts.' -ASG

'She would think, years later, how funny it is that you can't know which moment will matter, what to pay attention to, how to pull yourself out of the muck of now.' -ASG

'Weren't people either weak or strong, he wondered, not both at once, not unpredictably both?' -ASG

They were on their way to the island now, on an old wooden ferry from the mainland, braving the noonday sun that beat down on their heads like a mallet. -ASG

Her heart had little room for anyone; it was too crammed with stars. -ASG

And as she grew up, and came to know the world a little more, she grew more and more reliant on the night sky. -ASG

'Horses caught on fire and were shot on the beach, birds exploded in the air. Houses did not explode but imploded, as in a nuclear strike.' -JD

The slight but definite dislocation of time fixed on the mind the awesome isolation of the place, as did dislocations of other kinds. -JD

That flying back across the Pacific I regretted only the toaster. -JD

'I open the windows and feel the air, eat gratefully, sleep well. I noticed a particular nature of a flower in a glass on the stair landing. I count my blessings.' -JD

'I was going to Honolulu because I wanted to see life expanded to a novel, and I still do. I wanted room for flowers, and reef fish, and people who may or may not be driving one another to murder but in any case are not impelled, by the demands of narrative convention, to say so out loud on the 8:45 a.m. Pan American to Honolulu.' -JD

"I had nothing but to walk into nowhere and the wide sunset space and star. Ten watercolors we're made from that star." Quoting Georgia O'Keeffe

It's exactly the type of book I need to be reading right now. If course, California is a major part of this book's theme.

'Music people never wanted ordinary drinks. They wanted sake, or champagne cocktails, or tequila neat.' ( The latter my favorite, too. )

"Music people never wanted ordinary drinks. They wanted sake or champagne cocktails, or tequila neat." (The latter is my favorite. Yay.)

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Slowest read ever, yet, I loved it. I especially loved the quirky scenes on the airplane between the different passengers.
I carried this book everywhere with me for almost a month, along with No Mud, No lotus. I hate to let them go.

"Where are you left if you miss the message the blue nights bring?"
JD

Slow, wondrous read. My third book to read this year by Emily Henry. Mystical, full of surrealism, I drank this one in slowly.
Not to be missed, especially if you are already an Emily Henry fan.

The word, love swells painfully in my chest

'there is no expiration date on soul-love.'
'the whole world rejoiced because you were finally in it.'

such mystical read. Loving it