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"The dead are never far from us. They’re in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them is a single breath, one final puff of air."

"It seems to me that when you look back at a life, yours or another’s, what you see is a path that weaves into and out of deep shadow. So much is lost. What we use to construct the past is what has remained in the open, a hodgepodge of fleeting glimpses."

“But your father, Frankie, he cares more about God than he does about us. And to me that’s like saying he cares more about the air and I hate him for that.”

what a fucking line wow

"Why must men be so predictable and disappointing, even the good ones?"

real

“Don’t hold the idea that your love was too much. It was simply given to the wrong person.”

“I’d rather be half-loved than not loved at all.”

damn

“Don’t offer to cover the bill. Don’t even reach for your wallet.”
“What if he doesn’t have enough to cover the cost?”
“Then he shouldn’t be on a date. He should be filling out job applications.”

bye

“I wondered what it was like in a head that didn’t deal with anxiety. That sounded relaxing.”

real

“By the time he opened his eyes, he’d probably have a new visitor on his hands. So, for just a moment longer, he decided to keep them shut.”

“Is there any meaning or purpose to my existence that way? Why was I even alive in the first place?”

oh? im crying

“I’ll always be here for you, Alice. I will always show up for my daughter.”

went from screaming about how much i hated this book to sobbing over it

“I thought you were supposed to be shy,” he says.
“I thought you were supposed to be bad,” I fire back.”

hmmmmmmm.......ive grown quite fond of these 2

“Effing Charlie Florek.”

if it wasnt for book club i wouldve dnf'd this because of this line alone

“But she has this asshole baby.”

real

“My reassurance is genuine. My resentment unfounded. Yet they exist in tandem, threads of the same rope.”

“So much of my life I’ve felt like I’m pressing my nose to the window, watching everyone else be happy beyond the glass.”

umm...... i am SCARED

“I wonder what right Daphne has, what right anyone has, to say what is and isn’t love. I wonder if love can be ugly. If it can do the wrong thing. Bad things.
I wonder if it can ever really die.”

incredible

“But the easiest way to tell who a man really is, is to injure his ego and see how he reacts.”

shes so real for this

“I thought you knew, Win.”

I THOUGHT YOU KNEW !!!!!! spirit of conrad truly is alive in this book

“I love him so much it’s truly painful. As if every time I resist telling him how I feel when the truth boils up so close to the surface, a tiny piece of myself withers and dies.”

conrad teas

“But I think if you ask him, he’ll be gentle with your heart.”

“Sometimes the people who haunt us are still alive.”

“I’ve settled into a stagnant, passable life—safe but perhaps too safe. Smaller than the life I’d like to live moving forward.”

“We’ll do a game night. If we all team up, we can see how he reacts to losing. That’s like a fundamental test of stability.”

wait no this is so clever omg

“So… do we—do we get married?”

BYERYFFFF

“It’s dark blond, which I can choose to forgive.”

real

“It will feel scary, starting new, but it’s that irrational type of fear—the graveyard-at-night-with-no-ghosts fear. You’ll be fine. I promise.”

crying ?!!!!!!!!!