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this book has made me feel nothing but pain so far

“He’s so miserable, Rosie goes on. He’s always tired and bored and uninterested in me.
That’s marriage, her mother says, and it takes Rosie a second to realize that she’s not even joking.”
this is a fear of mine

“They have not spoken for nearly two years. He does not want to draw her in again, doesn’t want to go there, even though he so badly wants to hear from her, to read her words on a screen, and he is furious with her, for that. ”

“When her phone buzzes and she sees Will’s name, she does not open the message right away. It has been so long since she saw it, like that, on her screen.”

this is stressing me out

“It felt dangerous, and this, she thinks, is the opposite. She feels steadied in Simon’s arms. Propped up. With Will, she never knew where she was, how he might make her feel.”

didn’t think the pushing down and praying would get this far, this is terrifying

WEDDING? this is ridiculous

“He listens to her breathing and thinks of her awake and looping, obsessive and hurting and trying to cope, and the love he feels is bigger than anything he’s felt before, bigger than his anger and his pain, his desire and his fury, and this, to him, is entirely new, and the right thing, he knows, is to keep it to himself.”

“Mazzy Star, who Rosie treasures like sleep, and whom Will has never heard of.”

she’s so me

having such an urge to finally read jane eyre because i know I’m gonna relate to her so bad but i refuse until I have the physical copy 💔

“Don’t blame me, because I haven’t changed in the least towards you; I said that I would love you, and I love you now, I more than love you. Oh, my God! If only I could love you both at the same time! Oh, if only you were he!

‘Oh, if only he were you!’ flashed through my mind.”
Nastenka you would’ve loved challengers

“If you ever fall in love, then may God grant you happiness with her! But I won’t wish her anything, because she will be happy with you. ”

“but all the same I respect him too much, and doesn’t that mean that we’re not equals?’
‘No, Nastenka, no,’ I answered, ‘that means that you love him more than anything in the world, and a good deal more than you love yourself.”

“You know, we thank some people for merely living at the same time as we do. I thank you for the fact that I met you, that I will remember you for all my life!”

“You know, we thank some people for merely living at the same time as we do. I thank you for the fact that I met you, that I will remember you for all my life!”

“All right, Nastenka, all right!’ I cried out in delight, ‘and if I’d already loved you for twenty years, I still couldn’t have loved you more than I do right now!”

“And you recall that your dreams were sad then as well, and even though it was not better then, nevertheless, you somehow feel that it was easier, that you lived more comfortably, that there wasn’t this black brooding that troubles you now; that you didn’t have these pangs of conscience, these gloomy, dismal pangs that now give you no peace night or day. ”