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“Coriolanus felt sure he’d spotted his first mockingjay, and he disliked the thing on sight.”

I LOL’d

All across America, people shut their eyes, hoping their recollections might vanish upon the next glance. When they opened them, the specters remained. The Longshadow Man raised a glass.

It is impossible to take a step without walking through a ghost. Every memory creates one. Every version of ourselves leaves a shadow self behind. Every regret and every promise and every touch of skin against skin.

“It feels like being in love,” Avelyn said …

“No, it doesn’t,” Jericho said … “It feels like being in love with someone who won’t ever love you back. Adoration wasted. It’s awful.”

“Ah,” said Avelyn, who had never known any other kind of adoration.

To ask that evil things didn’t happen to you was just another way of asking for God to restrict something else’s ability to choose what to do, and that one thing in all creation was the most sacred; it would never change.

Why aren’t Maggie O’Farrell’s books explicitly marketed as magical realism??

Eugene is too good for this world

Is this magical realism or they all just mentally ill?

“Gabriel usually liked autumn and winter, because as the weather worsened, it was less reasonable for people to ask him to do things outside.”

I snorted 😂

Thank God we finally got an Uncle Andy mention - my favorite character in these books.

Finally, a queer tennis romance with actual 🌶️ in it. Thirty Love and Open Era, take notes, please.

Having a panic attack because a guy isn’t texting back so you end up double/triple texting?? Finally, I feel seen in a romance novel.

I have a foreboding feeling that this is going to be another Bury The Gays situation à la Three Martini Lunch

Author manages to spend more time bashing on queer men trying to get by in the late 1800s than former slave owners

Somehow, these two idiots are stupider than Shane and Ilya 😭

Maybe unfortunately, I love Eric and Kyle. Freaks.

My fav fag hag Maria ditching the police academy and saying ACAB?? God, we have to stan

Sometimes you just want to knock some idiots’ heads together and say “kiss”

Emotional damage

Look, I get that Noah being a single dad is a big part of this book, but frankly dgaf about his kid’s diarrhea.

I don’t think a book has ever made me crave a cigarette before, Jesus fucking Christ

This is one of my toughest reads in a while, fuck…

Don’t understand how it’s YA tbh, other than the fact it’s about young adults. If I read this when I was in high school, I think I’d be fucked up

I’ll have a lot more to say when I finish, but Croucher is absolutely successful so far. They do such a good job of showing how horrible Bastian is, but how just adorable Seb was. You can’t help root for a redemption here.

IDK what it says about me but I’m rooting for Briar and Seb. If that boy doesn’t get redeemed somehow, what was it all for?? Let me be a pathetic hopeless romantic 😭

“I’m coming to the cottage.”

Screaming, crying, throwing up

He quickly left the hospital room of the man he loved, and forced himself to focus on winning the Stanley Cup.

Ok, maybe I should just kms I guess 😭😭

“Shane liked a girl!”

I think I’ve seen this film before and I didn’t like the ending

It’s just a tuna melt, Shane. He’s not proposing marriage.

Idiots to lovers. Idiots to lovers. IDIOTS TO LOVERS.

In the car, Shane told his parents that he had been talking to Ilya Rozanov.

“What’s he like?” his mother asked.

“Kind of a dick,” Shane said.

☠️☠️

Only finished the prologue and I’m already devastated 😭

I will insist to my dying day that Ilya and Shane are not enemies to lovers, but idiots to lovers (the supreme trope)!