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“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.”

“Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences.”

“I was not a happy child, although from time to time I was content.”

Ouch.

Cue the “boyfriend is on a long business trip” blues. I’ve already read 1 book and he’s been gone 2 days. Here’s to book #2!

Enjoying the lighter tone in this book. Needed a reset after reading such dramatic books (still reeling from Noughts and Crosses).

“Maybe hatred has nothing to do with the devil either. Maybe it’s something we’ve invented. And then we just blame it on you, God, or on the Devil, because it’s easier than blaming ourselves.”

Wow. Powerful.

Also, I’ve read close to 260 pages so far today. This is a GOOD book.

Hope my penpal from the UK who suggested this one is happy that I’m (finally) reading this! I wanted to as soon as she mentioned it—but got caught up in work and other books.

Drama, drama, drama.