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This music had tears in it

Great grandma is grumpy, which is real

“He is someone who made decisions about his own life, his own future. He is someone I can survive without. He is someone I don’t know. He is someone who doesn’t know me.”

The last bit is so important

In the beginning, think of the end.

“To see the moments, over twenty years, when I hadn’t protected myself, when I had chosen comfort over conflict, not knowing over knowing. I had put myself here, one decision at a time.”

The cost for feeling safe was being controlled!

“He had not hidden it. I had chosen not to look. I had chosen not to know.”

“You know, women become less interesting to men when they don’t work. It really has a negative impact on marriages. I’ve seen it a lot.”

Everyone is being so cruel to her

“ I was the casualty of someone else’s destiny. My despair was their happy ending.”

Exactly this

Just to track things, she has used all of her smaller trust to buy the apartment that he PREFERS, and put it in both their names. IT IS WELL, omg let’s not forget the dastardly prenup

“And I thought that was what you did when you were married—share everything.”

Out of everything she has said so far, this might be the saddest bit

“I don’t have anything to look forward to anymore.” I know she said she wasn’t hurt by this remark, but my dear !!!

I wrote in my notes app, this guy is a social climbing locust, and I was referring to multiple things, most especially him getting a job with her uncle

“And doesn’t it all look different, wouldn’t your own story look different, if you knew how it was going to end? I will now spend the rest of the week pondering over these words

“The speed of our beginning and the speed of our ending, of his exit, felt like matching bookends. They both came out of nowhere” the heart of man is wicked!

I think this book is physically rewiring my brain

“I’m starving, can you make me a sandwich?”

GOD GRANT ME THE SERENITY

“He was furious. He texted me that, because of what Susan had written, he was going to continue his affair. He texted me that because of what she had written, he would give me nothing at all.”

THE HEART OF MAN IS TRULY WICKED

Really interesting to see how money is changing his relationship with his siblings

You say you don’t eat rats but you just want to taste the tail!

It is fascinating to read and realise just how early uncle Boniface’s influence has been on the protagonist we see his declaration of Ola being the “sugar in his tea” to be something he read earlier in a letter he was commissioned to write for Boniface. The close reading is close reading.