Status Updates From All the Men I've Loved Agai...

Having certain dreams come true can make you believe you deserve the credit for your happiness, that you yourself can be more powerful a force than fate or luck.

I just wanted to be like every other girl. Or what a girl should be. Easy, low maintenance, chill. Pretty much everything I’m not.”

Why are you doing this to me? Why can’t I stop thinking about Aaron? And why do I keep ordering stuff from Amazon that I don’t need and can’t afford?

… flailing for impossible solutions to the age-old struggle of seeing your friend fall for a bad man, a slow-motion train wreck you can only stand by and watch, sad, knowing, and utterly helpless.

“Je suis ready? I’m shit at languages, so my strategy is just to put a le or je suis in front of whatever English word I’m trying to say. Je suis hungry?”

If one of them was going to be dating a cheater, it should be Kim—she was the one who was always picking losers!

One look at the thing and Cora knew she was going to have to stay up all night vigilantly monitoring it for signs of malfunction and potentially saving everyone from burning to death in a tin can.

Aretha Franklin? That the Queen of Soul had entered this conversation was such a level of stunning irrelevancy that Cora came close to exploding into laughter. Or maybe that was also the hormones.

This was as effective as holding a plastic bag over your head in a monsoon.

“Oh, Cora, my dear, poetry is like life. There’s no way to do it ‘right.’ Which is the bad news, I suppose. But the good news is, there’s also no way to do it wrong.”

That’s the thing with parenting—for every decision you make, there’s a second one, and a third, a thousand different ones you wonder if you shoulda made instead.”

sorry, but shes settling??? neither of these men are right for her

lincoln literally let me down so bad omg. i keep saying i hate love triangles but i ate this book right tf up LOLL

ok im fr done with lincoln 🫩 he needs to gtfo of coras house NOW. quickly!!

also this story is so reminiscent of tsitp to me

i am really hating cora's decisions like girl

i’m so confused on what age she is???

okay, this book is starting to touch me on a bit of a personal level because 1. lincoln reminds me of my ex (definitely reflects in his relationship with his mother as well) and even though im over him, its breaking my heart a little.. and 2. cora's abortion and the situation with her mom made me realize why im scared of having my own children someday. i can connect with cora on a personal level 🙂‍↕️

oh girl.. this whole relationship with lincoln is messy asl