Status Updates From Acclamation (Acclamation, #1)

It‘s dragging quite a bit... I‘m a bit contemplating to DNF...

DNF 11%, I ain't got time for this grooming bullshit.

“What’s the use in dreaming, if you’re not going to fly?”

I never dreamt of flying, but that might have been why the sentiment spoke to me in the first place. So I decided to share in Dominic’s enthusiasm, to lose myself beyond the borderlands of reality for as long as we were on a holiday from our expectations and the boundaries . . . .

Hoffman, Vee. Acclamation (p. 287). Indie Inklings Ltd. Kindle Edition.

Love is love, we think. Happiness and sadness are what they are, simply variations on a theme. And until you realize that you’ve felt a thousand different sadnesses and can find a thousand more mismatched joys in unexpected places, you never know how weak and useless words truly are.

Hoffman, Vee. Acclamation (p. 256). Indie Inklings Ltd. Kindle Edition.

To settle into a comfort zone with any new lover is to face a world of insecurity, a need for reassurance that you are wanted, you are hungered for in all the ways the other person will have you. To put faith into a first lover, however, is to strive to understand what is wanted at all, and why.

Hoffman, Vee. Acclamation (p. 249). Indie Inklings Ltd. Kindle Edition.

The precise rendering of considered minds as they cross forbidden but necessary borders is proving to be, in the hands of Vee Hoffman, a gift sublime.

I know how fate works, too well to ever question it, too well to ever think that anything I decided of my own free will can be less than the right thing, less than a moment of my life meant to be.

Hoffman, Vee. Acclamation (p. 102). Indie Inklings Ltd. Kindle Edition.

Though I certainly have them, even if I don’t call them by the specific word, I try to live my life without regrets. I can hope that I make my decisions soundly enough that I won’t have to look back later and pine for other things.

Hoffman, Vee. Acclamation (p. 102)

He was coming around the bend from adolescence to adulthood in fifth gear, and was hugging that turn so close that the change had been imperceptible to me until that moment.

Hoffman, Vee. Acclamation (p. 93). Indie Inklings Ltd. Kindle Edition.

"The light played on Dominic’s hair. A hushed breeze blew over the footbridge and picked up the fringe on the ends of his scarf. Time could have stopped. I knew I would want to get lost in that park since I first saw it, to never emerge once I was there. I wouldn’t have, until that afternoon, expected that I’d want company."

Hoffman, Vee. Acclamation (p. 76). Indie Inklings Ltd. Kindle Edition.

This book is full of Call Me By Your Name level longing

I love this author’s lyrical writing style