WOW.

The things we fear the most are often the

things we should fear the least. It‘s irrational, but

it‘s what makes us human. And if we‘re able to

conquer those fears, then there is nothing we‘re

not capable of.

“This longing you express
is the return message.”
Your pure sadness
that wants help
is the secret cup.
-Rumi

Another masterwork. A delicate combination of history events and fictional stories. Khrushchev's secret speech, the Hungarian Revolution, and a detailed description of Gulag. Stories about love fear justice freedom and humanity always leave me in tears. With all the things happened around the world, I fear history repeats itself and we're all just in the middle of it. Like William Faulkner once said,"The past is never dead. It's not even past."

All the science/therapy-related contents in this book are inspiring, but the description of the cases can be triggering for people. Imagine got traumatized by reading a book about trauma therapy.🤕

What if it wasn't the crash that made us, but the debris?

10/10

I don't know what to say. I didn't expect this. People live in real-life handmaid's tale. It's hard to overstate how shocking and sad this is.

WOW. I haven't read anything like this before. It's more than just a mystery book.

It took me only 3 pages to know it's a beautifully written book. It took me 13 pages to know it's not a book for me, after 30 pages, I found myself suddenly cannot read.

Audio book highly recommend. I listened to it on my way to work , the sky seemed to be brighter even it's a cloudy day.

it was perilous to focus on good things when there were bad things, all these bad things, she said, that could not be forgot. She said old dark things as well as new dark things had to be remembered, had to be acknowledged because otherwise everything that had gone before would have been in vain.

Like snow covering the particulars of the city, they will say we never happened, that our survival was a myth. But they‘re wrong. You and I, we were real. We laughed knowing joy would tear the stitches from our lips.

Ingenious.