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Venus
rated a book it was amazing
Reading for the 2nd time
read in December 2024
Venus said:
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"You can fall in love: someone will catch you."-
I love a good silly book with likeable characters (except Tom fuck Tom). This one was really fun, even if I, at times, wanted to shake Olive aggressively for being a giant idiot, but that comes with the ...more "
His heart, they say, is wild, but in every version of any story I’ve ever been told about him, never did I hear that his heart was untamable.
“I've been thinking lately, maybe we do get new performances of the same day, opportunities to be more accepting and loving. Maybe practice, rehearsal, is also the way to freedom. We can start over. Time can loop back on itself, and here I am again with you, Margaret, trying.”
― Shark Heart
― Shark Heart
“You're like a brother to me."
Lewis felt his fins tingle as a light flickered on in him, his retired boyhood wish for a sibling coming to life.
"You're like a sister to me," Lewis echoed, realizing as he said it that few things had ever felt so true.”
― Shark Heart
Lewis felt his fins tingle as a light flickered on in him, his retired boyhood wish for a sibling coming to life.
"You're like a sister to me," Lewis echoed, realizing as he said it that few things had ever felt so true.”
― Shark Heart
“They wonder, each in their own way, if some part of Lewis's spirit is coming through to animate this new, seraphic being.”
― Shark Heart
― Shark Heart
“Lewis watched her flutter away, recalling the last time a woman left him alone in the ocean. Both times he was passive. Both times he felt euphoric and then promptly forlorn.”
― Shark Heart
― Shark Heart
“Would you like to be a family?" Lewis asked slowly, not because he was unsure but because he had nothing to offer her but his self and his time.
"A family?"
"Yes."
"Like, brother and sister?" asked Margaret.
"You and me."
"Family," Margaret said again, this time through tears. "I thought it would never happen to me.”
― Shark Heart
"A family?"
"Yes."
"Like, brother and sister?" asked Margaret.
"You and me."
"Family," Margaret said again, this time through tears. "I thought it would never happen to me.”
― Shark Heart
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