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"Maybe that's why people have children, she thought. So that they can remember what once happened to them."

"I believed that writers wrote themselves into their fictions, that however they twisted the original idea into a new shape, there was some truth inside it, still."

"Art wasn't truth, it was a lie told to tell the truth... And truth held different qualities to a fact. It was a question of angle, where you were standing and what view you needed to see. Art was always being on the hunt for something to which you could cling."

Seventh read for the Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon

"there is nothing
unfeminist
about the girl
who chooses
the ball gown
& the prince.

there is everything
unfeminist
about those
who try to
shame her for
her choices.
she may have it all,
but that doesn’t
stop you from
having it all.

celebrate her,
then celebrate you.

first you must realize
you can both
be successful
in different ways.

—internalized misogyny."

"if you can no longer recognize the face reflected in the bathroom mirror, remember this: you are ever-changing. ever-spinning, too, just like mother earth. when you fall from the pure exhaustion of it all, you have every means to get back up & start over again.

keep going, little dancer.

keep going."

"be proud of all the space
your body dares to take up."

Fourth read for the Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon

Third read for the Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon

Is this supernatural? A thriller? Is the narrator unreliable? Is everyone else? I have no idea, but what I do know is that I am loving this!

"it's our minds that are haunted, not our lives."

"The internet has created thousands of entrepreneurs making money from their hobbies; from Etsy artists, to lifestyle bloggers; from make-up artists, to writers. This world is about sharing: knowledge, skill, humour. But most of all, it's about monetising all of those things."

Second read for the Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon

First read for the Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon

"They were slick-finish girls, cat-eye girls, hot-blood girls. They were girls who reveled. They were girls who liked boys and backseats, who slid things that weren't theirs into back pockets, who lit fires and did doughnuts in the school parking lot. They were girls who left marks. They were girls who snuck. Girls who drank whisky and worse by the waterfront... making plans instead of wishes."

"“But, of course, memory and responsibility are strangers. They're foreign to each other. Memory always goes its own way quite regardless.”

"whoever makes up the story makes up the world, Daniel said. So always try to welcome people into the home of your story."

“Language is like poppies. It just takes something to churn the earth round them up, and when it does up come the sleeping words, bright red, fresh, blowing about.”

“I'm tired of the news. I'm tired of the way it makes things spectacular that aren't, and deals so simplistically with what's truly appalling. I'm tired of the vitriol. I'm tired of anger. I'm tired of the meanness. I'm tired of selfishness. I'm tired of how we're doing nothing to stop it. I'm tired of how we're encouraging it. I'm tired of the violence that's on it's way, that's coming, that hasn't happened yet."

"Sometimes the sea never gives back what it takes"

"he made me promise to look after my books as if they were my children. So here I am, a father with a million little paper children! Maybe today you'll adopt one of them?"

"Maybe," Aveline said. "I hope so."

The old man rested his pointy chin on one hand. "Well then I suppose you'd better step this way. I keep all our ghost stories at the back, where it's dark and a little bit creepy. They prefer it that way."

This feels very... musical theatre?

"It must be inconvenient to be made of flesh...However, you have brains, and it is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly."

I may be in the middle of two other audiobooks and five other physical books, but I just received the audio for my most anticipated 2020 release and so I must drop everything else and immediately start it!

I'm enjoying all of these perspectives so much, but Jovis and Mephi are the stars of the show.

REALLY loving this one, so far!

The tension is building!

"the young always have the greatest difficulty accepting unpleasant intelligence of their own mortality."

Spending my morning with King 😊

"To touch the infinite was to come fully awake to one's own utter limitation."