WOWOWOW BLOWN AWAY. i'm still processing this book, but wow this story completely absorbed me. such a beautiful story with amazing characters. highly, highly recommend!

quotes i liked:

"'Where are you from?' he asked.
Leni never knew how to answer that question. It implied a permanence, a Before that had never existed for her. She'd never thought of any place as home"(pg 58).

"Leni saw suddenly how hope could break you, how it was a shiny lure for the unwary. What happened to you if you hoped too hard for the best and got the worst? Was it better to not hope at all, to prepare? Wasn't that what her father's lesson always was? Prepare for the worst"(pg 122).