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the library wouldnt let me borrow any more books today bc this one is so overdue, so I guess this is the one I have to read next 🙈

why am I crying over this old lady and her mouse 😭💕

“[…] the brick cottage where Helen had grown up was still there. Now and again she walked that way into town. The front garden had been paved over, but cracks in the cement sometimes bled flowers she could name, as though just below the surface of this world are the ones we remember, still going on.”

“Contrary to village gossip, I am still very much alive.
So, while that remains the case, I believe it’s my turn—and my privilege—to malign my own reputation.”

“She had a fondness for stray animals and slightly damaged things—the chipped frame of a mirror, the weathered pages of a book that has been kissed by the rain, the sweater that has been nibbled by a troublesome moth—which primed her to look kindly on a man like him. But she ought not to. Strays bit sometimes, and certain old books were suffused with pernicious mold.”

‘“I can help,” Ree pleaded. “I eat danger for breakfast.”
“You eat breakfast?”
“I only eat danger.”’

“Nonagesimus, you hating me always meant more than anyone else in this hot and stupid universe loving me. At least I’d had your full attention.”

I’m never going to be okay about this actually

“I have never been murdered before, and I truly don’t intend to start now.”

harrow my beloved sarcastic queen, I am so happy to be with you again

I love this concept and this author but you cannot have a character use ‘unf’ as a full sentence to describe her attraction and still have me take her seriously

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..!