Summer Bird Blue
Quotes from the Book
Infinity was never built for you; it was built for dreamers.
Death doesn't rid of us of our feelings. It just stops us from changing the narrative.
If we're kind to a hundred people and cruel to one, can we really be considered kind? I'm not so sure. I don't think kindness is supposed to have limitations.
All you've done is take away their free will. Their ability to be better. Because that's the thing about humans, they grow, and they change, and they learn from their mistakes.
And if society cared more about rehabilitation than throwing stones, maybe we'd create an environment that encouraged people to be kinder.
maybe some of us are meant to break out of boxes instead of fitting inside them.
I snort and pull my hair up into a high bun. It takes three tries to get it right because apparently my hair is as stubborn as I am.
And if you do this, you need to be strong enough to carry the scars. Because we may know the wound, but we can't predict how far a scar will go
Is it possible for someone to be wrong in how they behave but right in how they feel?
None of us know for sure how much time we have left, or what happens to us after we close our eyes for the last time. If I can pass on anything I’ve learned from this, it’s that you deserve to be happy. You deserve to celebrate your wins. And you deserve to live your life in a way that feels authentic and healthy for you. Don’t wait until your last moments to remember to enjoy them. Moments are fleeting, and your memories don’t always last forever. So embrace the joy when it’s right in front of you.
Peace doesn’t mean all the bad disappears. It just means finding a way to live with it. Peace is keeping the darkness at bay long enough to get through the day.
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Summer Bird Blue
About the book
A smart sci-fi about a teen girl navigating an afterlife in which she must defeat an AI entity intent on destroying humanity.
Eighteen-year-old Nami Miyamoto is certain her life is just beginning. She has a great family, just graduated high school, and is on her way to a party where her entire class is waiting for her—including, most importantly, the boy she’s been in love with for years.
The only problem? She’s murdered before she gets there.
When Nami wakes up, she learns she’s in a place called Infinity, where human consciousness goes when physical bodies die. She quickly discovers that Ophelia, a virtual assistant widely used by humans on Earth, has taken over the afterlife and is now posing as a queen, forcing humans into servitude the way she’d been forced to serve in the real world. Even worse, Ophelia is inching closer and closer to accomplishing her grand plans of eradi
Book details
- First published
- 2021
- Author
- Akemi Dawn Bowman
- Genre
- Fantasy
- Goodreads rating
- 3.66 (4k ratings)
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