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Deep Dive into Station Eleven Part 3

Part One  "What was the Symphony without Dieter and the clarinet and Sayid? Kirsten had thought of Dieter as a sort of older brother, she realized, perhaps a cousin, a fixture in her life and in the life of the symphony. It seemed in some abstract way impossible that the symphony continued without him." Page 141 - I chose this quote because it shows how close everyone in the Traveling Symphony is and when one goes missing or leaves for whatever reason, it hits everyone pretty hard emotionally.  "Jackson appeared in the doorway. 'There's a skeleton in the men's room.' August frowned. 'How old?' 'Old. Bullet hole in the skull.' 'Why would you look in the bathroom?' 'I was hoping for soap.' " Page 129 - I chose this quote because this book was already kind of dark, but it just gets so grim out of nowhere. Like they found a skeleton rotting in a men's bathroom with a bullet lodged in its head. But then they kind of lig