al3xa's Reviews (242)

re-reading / re-listening to this nearly perfect heart-filling middle grade book

“Sometimes trusting someone is about the scariest thing you can do. But you know what? It’s a lot less scary than being all alone.”

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this book was sweet, absurd, & tragic.


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(note: i saw a few reviews saying that the last section goes too completely off the rails even considering the parameters of this book, & i agree. i also agree w much of the rodeo cricism!)

“I SWEAR:
To learn how to put eyeliner on
To be happy in my skin (whatever that means, but it is being said by all those skinny women on TV who don’t have much skin to begin with, and so they don’t have to worry about how much happiness to fit into their skin, but us fat girls have so much more skin we have to claw and scratch happiness from anywhere we can get it so we can stuff it into our skin)
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I SWEAR
To not make promises I can’t keep.”

(p. 47-48)

“… i am grateful for many blessings/ but the gift of understanding,/ the wild one, maybe not” (66).