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** spoiler alert ** I forced myself to read 300 pages of this only for it to have an ambiguous ending??? While I didn’t love this book, I did appreciate the way it addressed feminist issues that we deal with nowadays in a dystopian setting. There were some thought provoking quotes, here’s some ones that stand out:
“Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?��

“When we think of the past it’s the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.��

“It was our hands that were supposed to be full, of the future; which could be held but not seen.��

“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between stories.��

“Maybe it’s about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing.��

“She tried to explain it to me afterwards, to tell me that the things in it had really happened, but to me it was only a story. I thought someone had made it up. I suppose all children think that, about any history before their own. If it’s only a story, it becomes less frightening.��

“Better never means better for everyone, he says. It always means worse, for some.��