Status Updates From Trust Me

"Alone in chaos. Stark looked down into the endless depth of the cauldron."

"'A man who demands too much of himself makes other people uncomfortable. They figure if they can't live up to his own standards, they'll never be able to satisfy him, either,'"

"She did not know how to ease his mind. Stark was a man who would always be harder on himself than on anyone else."

"'He wasn't being consciously charitable, he just did it because it seemed like the right thing to do. That's the way he does things.'"

"'No one can turn a man into a hero, just as no one can turn him into a coward. A man has to do either one all by himself.'"

Actually so glad they pointed out how creepy and possessive Tony's behavior is for his STEPSISTER. (Not nearly enough, but still).

**For some reason GoodReads has 35 less pages listed for this book then the amount my physical copy has, so I am going to adjust the page number I am on accordingly.

"What amazed him was the dark emotion that had swirled to life within him. The lid that covered the cauldron of chaos had come off. The storm of loneliness that boiled out threatened to swallow him whole."

"Stark was well aware that he was the only one who was not inside the magic, glistening bubble that enclosed everyone else at the table. He stood on the outside, the eternal observer, and watched what was happening."

"No one ever thanked the messenger when the news was bad."

"This was no time to get dragged down into the chaos of emotion. There was too much at stake."

"Argue with it? He could crush her weak, absurd, faulty logic in two seconds flat."

“He gazed as though he had consciously chosen to live the latter portion of his life immersed in the role of an again old-world aristocrat…regardless of the role he had elected to play, his eyes held unexpectedly keep perception.”

“Once again, Stark was aware of feeling outside the pattern. The brief, temporary insights he had gained when he was connected to desdemona seemed lost. With the skill of long practice, stark suppressed the dark loneliness.”

“He felt so good, so right. The way he did when he sensed himself on the verge of comprehending a vast, complex pattern. It was the kind of moment that pushed back the borders of chaos.”

“He moved with the fluid power of a waterfall.”

“‘Sometimes some people are in a position to make it a little easier for others.”

Side note, I see why people say adding a lot of qualifiers comes off as hesitance / lack of confidence in what you’re saying.

“You don’t do stuff like this for other people. You do it for yourself.” - work out

“‘Blue corn pancakes’”

“Ian fluttered slightly, but he did not lose his smile”

“Red flags appeared in her cheeks.”

“Stark gazed at her, so damned relieved by the welcome he has just received that he could not think of anything to say. She looked so good, so right, he thought with a sense of wonder. and he had come so close to losing her. The realization chilled him.”