This book was fantastic. It felt urgent and dark and light. It's about justice and reconciliation and found family. So good. I heard echoes of A Wrinkle in Time and A Wind in the Door. 


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It was the sound of a starting...

...she began to dissociate, reality loosening around her like a hammock deconstructing itself, spilling her out into sands of nothingness.

"We're magnificent; we're testing our aliveness against each other. How fast is your alive? How smooth is your alive? How Hard, how resilient? We're alive because we can be hurt; we're alive because we can heal. I think it's beautiful." (Redemption)

...she was tired, as if a blanket made of world was pressing down on her.

...all you have to do is be willing to see, to admit that there are unseens waiting to be seen. 

Words are never enough for a lot of things. 

...the library would have some answers, it always did. It would help them know what was known. 

"It's okay. You're here, you're real." (Redemption)