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"textContent": "Finished reading: Ghosts of Greenglass House by Kate Milford 📚 My daughter and I continue to visit the Greenglass House universe. I may enjoy these more than she does. Highlights \"I think most people know they shouldn’t make bad assumptions about people, but they don’t always get that making any assumptions is probably not a good idea.\" \"“Now maybe, if you can, try not to think about it anymore for a while. Because when you think about this kind of thing, you worry, and worrying just makes you feel worse.”\" \"But even the miraculous can fade into the background and become invisible when you can’t look past something that seems closer and more menacing.\" \"back in the days before he learned that monsters lived in houses just like everyone else.\" \"Maps don’t show reality, they give you a way of visualizing it.\" \"“Every map focuses on some things and leaves other things out. Making a map means making choices about what’s important to you. What the world is really, truly like in every single detail doesn’t matter; what matters is what specifically about the world you want to show. Orientation’s part of that—it can help emphasize what information is significant. And you can orient a map however you want, as long anyone else who needs to read it can figure out how to orient it too.”\" This is one where some kind of ritual will grow out of it for me. \"“the days between either the twenty-first and the second day of the New Year or the twenty-fourth and the fifth of the New Year are the Raw Nights. They are uncertain nights, nights when it is said spirits and haunts come out to walk. But also they are oracle nights, augury nights, lot nights—nights when fortunes can be told, and good luck can be assured . . . or the opposite,” he added. “So the Waits venture out during\"",
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