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my goodness Alexis’ family is insane.
and at 37, I really want her to boss up and tell her Dad to go fck himself.
I hope Daniel gets to punch the crap out of Neil (if Alexis doesn’t get to).
and I loveeee her bestie Dr. Bri Ortiz.
(so far this book is hilarious!!)

I forgot how much I love Augustus Everett.

1) Phoebe needs to stop calling Matt her husband. Like that man left you for one of your mutual colleagues.
2) With respect to her fragile mental health, I need Phoebe to commit to making actual decisions in her life, rather than let people/events smack her upside the head repeatedly without changing course.

“I thought you were my friend.”

“I was your friend… The only reason Matt fell in love with me was because your marriage was already over.”

Two things can be true at once but Mia let’s not pretend you were a good friend to Phoebe. You slept with that woman’s husband and knew you were in love with him way before the act… you should’ve came to her as a woman and now you’re shocked Phoebe is upset?

Matt and Mia still work at the same university as her? Absolutely not.

Mia as in home girl who’s husband unsuccessfully tried to check out?? Matt asking for divorce over zoom?? Because “Matt, Mia, and her baby are already a pod. ‘Are you ok? Please tell me you are ok?’” Bro, what??

“In her fantasies, he was never sweet to her anymore. In her fantasies it was no longer even her that he was
f—ing. Though the therapist had insisted the fantasy was still good news. ‘It’s good that it least involves your husband,’ he had said.”

No one in this woman’s life is paying attention to how close she is teetering to the edge of losing her shit. I can’t.

“And so many decisions I made were based on the fear of what could go wrong, instead of my hopes for what might go right. Every time that fear got tripped, I picked you up and moved you away, rather than facing the possibility of discomfort. I never took any chances.”

Daph sees her mom as this independent superwoman type and has fashioned herself after her, but her mom is like I’m human and a mess too

“The escape hatch I’ve been waiting for, right when the whole house of cards is falling down, and I should feel happy, or at least relieved, but all I can feel is this whole-chest ache, yet another loss of someone, something, I didn’t even have to begin with.”

Daph has to stop letting life just happen to her instead of demanding more from herself and those around her— from her Dad to Miles

“You really don’t remember?” he says. I shake my head. This clearly bothers him, but I can’t think of anything comforting to say. The fact is, the most memorable parts of my childhood are the ones he missed, his absence exactly what gave them their weight.”

What does it say about me that my favorite EH characters have massive father wounds?? lmao

“On Sunday, Miles surprised me and (a less than thrilled) Julia with a drive down to a little town called North Bear Shores for a bookstore event with a romance writer Sadie had turned me on to years ago.”

HI JANUARY 🥰

Not me going “Jules what tf is your problem” out loud before Miles says it in the audiobook lol

My first book narrated by Julia Whelan and I 100% get why people go up for her, she’s phenomenal at what she does.

“It seems strange that Peter never introduced me to the term, but Miles points out that the Collinses are former fudgies themselves, having moved to their favorite vacation spot when Peter was in second grade.”

Miles really said “they not like us” 😭😭

“[we’re] more like cousins then friends” and then leaving Daphne the day after his bachelor party is insane lmaoo

the day after the bachelor party is crazy…

Giggling and kicking my feet when I just remembered this is a J.L. Seegars book which means she’s about to break my heart before she puts it together again