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I can't put this book down! 📚

"In fact, everything is better in real life. Reality is beautiful; imagination is dangerous-it'll let you down if you're not careful."

"People only work well when they are desperate, I think. When they have no other option for happiness.”

"Once in her life, she would like to enjoy what other people had. Just once, she would like to experience life as a person of comfort and wealth, a happy person. And then she would never wish for anything again; she would become a poor person forever. She would accept it. After all, it was her destiny in life to be poor, as it was other people‘s destiny to be rich. It had always been this way; she‘d been foolish to think she could change her fate"

"All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow."

"But women, my boy, they're the pivot everything turns upon..."

Did not see the twists coming! I devoured this book. If you love mystery, movies, horror films- give this a shot!

It had a kind of slow start for me, but I'm so glad I stuck with it! It's really good the further you go!

There's nothing like a great mystery on a sick day. Laying on the couch and reading Night Film on my Kindle App. #currentlyreading #nightfilm #mystery

Eventually I want to do a video review of this for my YouTube channel, but in the meantime- this book has touched me deeply and given me a better understanding of Buddhism and Japan. It, also, gave me a mirror into my own soul and experiences, helping me see a new strength within myself. Plus the story is just amazing. If you love travel or strong female leads- this would be the first book I'd recommend.

"The entire world seemed to concentrate for a moment inside my body, a frail host for the emotions that were possible."

Listening to this on the way to meet my boyfriend

"'A young woman can never have too many flowers,' he said, and I thought to myself how easy it seemed to be for men to have ideas as to what a young woman should or should not have."

"...Fudō looks angry because he hates illusions. He gets mad at all the little demons running around the world who make us sick and stupid. That's the wonderful thing about Asia. So much angry art. People like to think that Buddhism is about inner calm. The truth is, sometimes it is necessary to be angry. Intolerant."

"Amsterdam was a real city, as real as Tokyo. But everything was so different, and so interesting, it was difficult not to feel as though I had fallen into a storybook and was watching characters come to life."

This book has such a rich engrossing rhythm and characters! +_+ Must keep reading!

Re-read and new read! So excited to read Snow Like Ashes for the first time

I was in tears by the end of this book. Rosamund Hodge does it again. All the stars. All the recommends.

I enjoyed this book immensely! It's a very slow burn suspense that can be read in a day or two. Looking forward to checking out more work by Ryu Murakami in the future!

“Nice person, bad person—that‘s not the level this girl is at. I can see you‘re crazy about her and probably won‘t be able to hear this, Ao-chan, but I think you‘d be better off staying away from someone like her. I can‘t read her exactly, but I can tell you she‘s either a saint or a monster. Maybe both extremes at once, but not somewhere in between.”

"She knows what‘s most important to her and she knows how to get it, but she doesn‘t let on what it is. I‘m pretty sure it‘s not money, or success, or a normal happy life, or a strong man, or some weird religion, but that‘s about all I can tell you. She‘s like smoke: you think you‘re seeing her clearly enough, but when you reach for her there‘s nothing there."

"And then she felt it again: the sudden, sharp awareness of wanting to touch him, of the space between them as an open wound..." (pg 231)

Morning reading 🌹

"Sometimes things happen that no one hopes for.[...]No one is to blame, but you‘re left with a wound you can‘t heal on your own and can‘t believe you‘ll ever learn to accept, so you struggle to escape the pain. Only time can heal wounds as deep as that—a lot of time—and all you can really do is place yourself in its hands and try to consider the passing of each day a victory."

The death of someone close to you, he realized at that moment, was something you came to accept one concrete fact at a time.

Loving this so far 👑Also Hello after so long. I took a small break from Litsy, but I'm happy to be back and posting again.

A person without self-confidence is incapable of being independent, and people who are dependent on their partners always create unhappiness. Always.

Loving it so far! A huge fan of Bates Motel and the original film!

"Do fear and love share the same root?"

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"We have teeth and we have tails
We have tails we have eyes
We were here before you fell
You will be here when we rise."

Only a chapter in and I already have chills. Im looking forward to hearing her story.

I'm sorry I sort of fell out of updating here! Went through a bit of a reading slump! I'm back now starting with this book! I've been wanting to finish this one for a while actually!

My second attempt at Stephen King ends the same way. His writing is....ugly-there's really no other way for me to describe it. He's also extremely repetitive. Not for me.

I loved it. It was weird (in a good way) and kept me guessing the whole way through.

Thus far horrifying but intriguing

There is something very wrong with this school.

"It's a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters."

"I don't know that we are actually human at this point, those of us who are like most of us, who grew up with TV and movies and now the Internet. If we are betrayed, we know the words to say; when a loved one dies, we know the words to say...We are all working from the same dog-eared script."

There's absolutely nothing wrong with the writing or the style of the book. I just...didn't enjoy it the way I did "a tale for the time being." I'm going to be reading her only other book I haven't read "All Over Creation" in the next couple of weeks, so maybe that one will be more my thing?

This book has no chill and I love it so far...

This book broke my heart and sewed it back together. I thought I had picked up an interesting YA novel but I wasn't necessarily looking for more than that. But what I found in this book was a new perspective and a greater compassion for my fellow women. Read this book. This story needed to be told.

This book is breaking my heart. All I want to do is protect Naila.

"Maybe, I think, if I don‘t look up, if I simply look down and never look up again for the rest of my life, the feelings buried within will never rise to the surface. I can accept the numbness instead of the madness that could follow."