We watch the way the water pulls back and turns over and beats against the sand, trying to wear the earth away. And even though it doesn't succeed, it pulls back and pounds the shore again and again, as if there were no last time and there is no next time and this time is the time that counts."

"have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God."

There are a million other quotes from this book that are incredible....it broke me. It really did.

Nothing seemed really real. Sleeping, waking, it all collided into one gray, monotonous plane ride through the clouds. I didn't talk to myself in my head. There wasn't much to say. This was how I knew the sleep was having an effect: I was growing less and less attached to life. If I kept going, I thought, I'd disappear completely, then reappear in some new form. This was my hope. This was my dream.

"I do believe in fairies; I do, I do!"

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This book shattered my heart in a million different ways. The writing is achingly ethereal, yet all too real. Emilia is in a sense all of us who had something fundamental ripped away from us as children.

"It's men who trust they will suffer no consequences for their actions, while women suffer no matter what they do."
I mean....this stands on it's own really.