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book four of the year and I’m really hoping it will be the first Good one (bc I cannot take another two star read rn)

“Maybe I’ll put some protein powder in mine.”
“You want to put protein powder in your sniw globe?”
“Yes.”
“Seriously? Star-shaped beads and protein?”
“I thought we were allowed to put in anything we liked.”

‘“[…]and we have a lot of things to work through and figure out. Maybe we take this whole thing one day at a time.”
“Wow. Is this that queer-women communication thing you’re always on about?”
“I’ve heard rumours it’s possible for people to just . . . talk things through.”

‘I’d drifted even closer to her, pulled in by her vulnerable words and by that swooping scar that makes me feel like a string is tied around my insides, tied back to her. She’s so beautiful, and not just because of her hair and her freckles and her eyes—not just because of her long limbs and her strong thighs and her lovely neck—but because of the messy shape of her heart, which beats wildly for macarons and pie.’

‘“Shit.” Jack looks appalled. “Do I always sound like a cheesy motivational poster hanging in the office of an out-of-touch high school guidance counselor?”
“Literally always.”
Jack flashes me her full, goofy, infectious smile, and I feel like that is written on my bones. Her smile is stamped on every nerve ending in my body.”

this book has such potential but I keep getting so frustrated w the characters not finishing their convos or asking the right questions 🙃 ‘is this guy guilty?’ yeah we already know he’s guilty of something, you should be asking if he is guilty of the specific thing you want to know about!!!! I’m gonna yell!!!!

“If Darcy wanted to sell this relationship, she needed to understand what made Elle tick. If such a thing could even be pinpointed. So far, the verdict was out, the inner workings of Elle Jones less of a neat little package to be unwrapped and more like a clown car full of increasingly random and terrifying endearing quirks.”

“You don’t need to make a single project from this book or follow a single piece of advice I give. […] The ‘rules’ of patternmaking and handsewing are just utensils, really. They don’t know what you want, they can’t think for you, and they certainly can’t make clothes for you.”

“Some people keep their heart tucked so deep, they hardly know it’s there. But you, you have always worn it like a second skin. Open to the world. You feel it all. The love and pain. The joy and hope and sorrow. It will make your life harder. But it will also make it beautiful.”

I always place books on hold at the library without rereading the blurb or reviews, and pick them up at a whim, so I was pleasantly surprised when I found vampires and lesbians within these pages 🙈

“On the day they first kiss, Raff’s heart does not speed up; instead it seems to slow right down, it beats so hard and so slow that he thinks of the whale heart. Of the humpback, and the enormity of that heart, of its chambers a person can walk through.”

"You're my [...] salt. You bring out the best of everything—the sweet, the sour, the bitter. You're the reason to savor things. You're the first seasoning, and the last. You're the sea. You're the stars. Life is built on salt, and I—I want to build mine with you."

damn I love books!!!!!!

damn this is making me hungry

also, lesbian nuns!!!!

"I do think it's a very uneven exchange of Christmas presents. You'll eat yours up in a week and have nothing left to show for it by New Year's Day. I'll have mine till the day I die – and die happy in the knowledge that I'm leaving it behind for someone else to love. I shall sprinkle pale pencil marks through it pointing out the best passages to some book-lover yet unborn."

"you leave me sitting here writing long margin notes in library books that don't belong to me, some day they'll find out i did it and take my library card away.
I have made arrangements with the Easter bunny to bring you an Egg, he will get over there and find you have died of inertia."

this has already made me laugh aloud - I have high hopes for this, and it better live up to them!

this is possibly the most depressing book I have ever read, which sucks when I went into it thinking it would be a light-hearted and hopeful read

“There are no sparrows but there are baby pond snails. Baby steps. Baby snails. Baby love and baby hope. The two things that keep us all going on this crazy world that, for some incomprehensible reason, keeps bloody turning.”

I am still slowly working through clearing out my tbr shelf - it had crept back over 1000, but today I got it down to 845!! still a lot of books to look at, but I've gotten to the end of 2019, so we're a lot closer to my current reading taste - I might not be able to remove many more! but we'll see! I'd love to get my tbr shelf smaller than my read shelf..!

"The future is trans. The future is non-binary. The future is soup."

"Night is for the shy creatures, for the people who don't need fanfare, for the stars. Night is when the truth is most likely to come out: in the blue-black of a bedroom, with a girl who is finally your friend, where anything is possible because it is impossibly lucky that the two of you are alive at the same time."

‘We’re kids,” Covey says, shaking her head. “We’re not supposed to be doing any of this. Adults are. We should be in our rooms playing loud music and making out or watching responsibly made, women-lead soft porn—“
“That is super specific,” Wilder says.’

I really had to push myself through the first few chapters - I found the writing style really hard to grasp at first, though the premise intrigued me - and now I’m glad that I stuck with it. I’m still struggling a bit with the prose, but I’m also struggling to put it down, and thats the important thing.

Edgar Allen Poe's 'Fairy-Land' definitely felt like a fun one to read aloud! this is such an interesting read and very different to anything else in my pile right now

“I like how you are. There’s an entire world of ink and magic stuffed inside your head, and I think it’s beautiful. I just wish everything didn’t hurt you so much.”

‘“That’s all well and good,” the gargoyle said from the corner of the room. He shook a blanket at me. “But who’s going to tuck me in?”’

I would lay down my life for this gargoyle

“There was a world behind Rory’s dark eyes. It was as if he could see everything all at once when he looked at me, and it was far too much, but he wanted all of it.”

oh I am giggling and kicking my feet 🤭 enemies to lovers go brrrrrr