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Alice Russell is missing in the woods during an office retreat. She knows Aaron Falk and her phone left him a message in the middle of the night and he makes out two words...”hurt her”

Later, the four remaining women could fully agree on only two things. One; no one saw the Bushland swallow up Alice Russell. And two, Alice had a mean streak so sharp it could cut you.

Eve and Jed are telling Oliver that if he can hear them and if the machines that he will be hooked up to can help him communicate, they want him to tell them the truth about what he wants for his future. Heartbreaking

Closure was just a prayer for an ending that would never come, just a professional sounding word for another hollow kind of faith.

Charlie and his Ma have a sweet heart to heart

The tragedy of love, is that it is only possible to love perfectly a person who is lost to you; Only a lost person, lodged in a place before the narrow, clumsy gates of language, could ever understand you perfectly. And so maybe the great love of your life was only a crush, blown up to operatic proportion’s by impassable distance, only a name for your vanished future.

The last few chapters haven’t had a name attached to them.

It was rage that had set the blaze. It was the outrage of a hopeless, abused, and cast off child given false hope.

And if it were true that Hector with his muttering tempers, has been unwell, and if it were also true that Hector had seen the horrific footage of how other boys before him had made a gruesome spectacle of their suffering, Rebekkah knew those factors amounted only to kindling for the fire.

And if it were true that Hector with his muttering tempers, has been unwell, and if it were also true that Hector had seen the horrific footage of how other boys before him had made a gruesome spectacle of their suffering, Rebekkah knew those factors amounted only to kindling for the fire.

It’s no wonder Hector went off the deep end. Mother left to Mexico when he was 5, father was an ahole, students bullied him mercilessly, and he was I assume molested by a teacher then dumped like yesterday’s news.

Oliver tried to blink or move muscles like Margot asked when she was working with him but was unable to.

It’s looking like Mr. Avalon hurt Hector and Rebekkah. Possibly sexually. Oliver is aware of his surroundings and can hear everything in the hospital but his brain is able to tune out for days and weeks on end due to his inability to communicate. He is upset that Margot is being outed as a fraud because he feels like he is sort of talking with his family even though Margot doesn’t know what he’s actually saying.

A phrase used often...Once upon a time there was a boy who through a crack in time but he didn’t fall all the way.

Oliver hears all of his Ma’s questions but cannot answer. The answers your mother needed were six inches from her ear, but they might as well have been miles away falling to dust on the desert floor.

When she (his Ma) cracked her bottle of grief open, it poured forth. She tried to wipe away her tears, but they rained down on you nevertheless. Unable to weep on your own, those tears on your face were a kind of relief.

Oliver wanted to die. He pictures the white joke of death and tried to force himself through. But the machines stubbornly circulates the business of his heart, bladder and bowels. You had no choice. Oliver, you had no choice but to live.

Oliver felt defeated inside his body. The strongest feeling he let pass through himself was a horrible craving for any bite of actual food.

Oliver describing what it was like after he was shot. Waking up in the hospital and being trapped in his body. Makes me shudder

Ma was anxious and obsessive, as if she alone could invent a cure for the disease of time and the trip wired it sprung in her family’s genes and keep her children with her forever.
Charlie needed to keep Oliver’s story, his poems close to him. Charlie’s own existence without Oliver felt like too sorrowful a thing to live in alone.

Oliver called BS on Margot. After he blew up at Oliver when they were alone, Margot came in to set up the days work with Oliver. He asks Oliver the name of their steer growing up and Margot gets defensive and freaks out. Charlie now knows it’s not really Oliver communicating and tells Margot she has to tell his parents. She says please leave us alone about her and Charlie.

Charlie is angry with Oliver and asks him in the hospital even though we aren’t yet sure Oliver is aware...”Why didn’t you ever stick up for me with Ma? Why did you always let me be the one she hated?” He says he tried to become Oliver to make Ma happy.

Ma always says “There are people who can be alone together, and those who don’t know the value of listening to their own thoughts.” This was said to Charlie to make him feel bad and make he feel like he was always disruptive when all she wanted was silence.