Molly Abel > Recent Status Updates

“what you think someone liking how you look’s gonna get you? Far as I know, nobody liking how you look mean you loved or fed or got a roof over your head. Truth is, always gonna be somebody in this world who likes how you look and somebody that don’t and neither of ‘em gonna change nothin’ about who you is.”

finally! a plot point happened!

this is going so slow

starting this again

i am eating this up like this house is eating them

was going to say it wasn’t anything super riveting but then realized i’ve read 230 pages today so clearly it’s interesting

sat down to read the first page and accidentally read 25

not loving this experience even 10%

This is so weird and I have no idea what’s going on. Just being a good student and reading this for class but like hey Clay what the heck?

“For all my Docs”
i’m already emo this is gonna be rough

i will say i was getting very bored but there was just a twist. frieda kinda got me wont lie.

i’m so back on my thriller grind

“still, connell went home that night and read over some notes he had been making for a new story, and he felt the old beat of pleasure inside his body, like watching a perfect goal, like the rustling movement of light through leaves, a phrase of music from the window of a passing car. Life offers up these moments of joy despite everything.”

it appears i’m going to read this in the span of 24 hrs so pls understand the person i’m going to become

choosing to read a book about drownings + lakes + murder during my first weekend of lifeguard training at the lake was definitely not my best work

“the machine turns, turns and must keep on turning- for ever. It is death if it stands still.”
i have no idea what ive gotten myself into w this

“It would be pleasant to be able to say of my travels with Charley ‘I went out to find the truth about my country and I found it.’ And then it would be such a simple matter to set down my findings and lean back comfortably with a fine sense of having discovered truths and taught them to my readers. I wish it were that easy. But what I carried in my head and deeper in my perceptions was a barrel of worms.”

“I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation— a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any Here. … I saw this look and heard this yearning everywhere in every state i visited. Nearly every American hungers to move.”

“our strongest desires are not actually our deepest desires” lots of things to think about so far

reading this series for the first time.. actually magical i feel like im 10 again

“Maybe she doesn’t love me as much as she loves Neeley. But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.” HEY WHAT?! Gonna leave that there, but at this point i both need and love this book badly!