Status Updates From We Could Be So Good

The fact that this thing that’s been a source of such comfort to him probably never existed in any meaningful way makes him feel rattled. Everyone he knows is trying to assemble some kind of life from the spare parts they have lying around…”

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OWWWWWWWWWWW

“For as long as Andy’s known Nick, he’s understood that Nick keeps people at arm’s length, and for good reason. This is how Nick stays safe—or thinks he does. But sometimes there’s a fatalistic edge to his isolation, as if he thinks that he’s doomed to be alone. Or, in this case, that he’s doomed to do stupid, dangerous things.”

MY SHAYLAS!!!

MORE YEARNING NOW

FINALLY

omfg these goons

“That’s, maybe, when it starts to feel good, when Andy realizes how much work Nick is putting into being gentle. And that’s what’s always done it for Andy, isn’t it, the fact that Nick is just so good to him.”

LIKE!!!!!!!!!!!

“Families might usually be bonded by blood, but maybe sometimes they’re bonded by shared secrets, by a delicate mixture of caution and faith, by the do bc action that hiding together is better in every way than hiding alone. “

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“That’s the thing about walls. They don’t tend to appear for no good reason; they’re either closing something off or holding something up, and you can’t just wish them away.

“Is Andy the only person Nick’s been with like this? The idea makes him feel greedy, smug with satisfaction. Its pathetic, but he wants to know that he’s special, that what they’re doing is new ton Nick in some way.”

Finally we’re getting somewhere, ahhh the beauty of slowburns

Close enough!

Welcome back Ilya Rosanov and your obsession with freckles. 😏