Status Updates From Behind Five Willows

I don’t want to jinx it but this is actually SO freaking good omfg

“I hate how small you make me feel.”

😭😭😭

I know the class issue is a heavy barrier, but he’s literally looking down upon her family right in front of her 🤨

This is so good

If he couldn’t bother to be amiable, then she refused to try to be pleasant, either.”

His dad is abusive?

loving this concept

"You'll never be friendless. You will never be entirely alone."

"Mundane? Love is the closest thing to the heavens."

There were too many rules a woman had to live by."

Reading was an escape, but writing …

With writing, he could craft a haven for himself. A world where grief for his mother did not drown his father in endless mourning, where his sister’s love story did not end in ruin. Where corruption and brutal interrogation did not crush the innocent and the powerless. A world where children and strays were not swept away by floods, or starved by drought.”