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So, can someone explain to me what “shaggy alpine hair” is? Because that is one of the worst descriptions I’ve read.

I had to return this to the library, so I have to put it on hold until I can get it again.

“My grandfather told me once that happiness is an expression of gratitude. And it’s never wrong to be grateful.”

“Tragedy makes for great stories, but I’d much rather your story—the one you live, not the ones you write—be filled with joy. Don’t revel in tragedy, Annie.”

“‘When you look at the isotope ratios,” Todd Dawson, a Berkeley biologist who’s done this sort of research, told me, “we North Americans look like corn chips with legs.’”

“So that’s us: processed corn, walking.”

Alice is seriously one of the most unlikeable characters ever.

Well. Alice isn’t very likable. And I must admit the “advice” at the beginning of each chapter, as well as Nellie’s story, are really uncomfortable, but I’m pretty sure that’s the point.