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“trying to picture himself on a date now was like trying to imagine himself bungee-jumping, theoretically possible but under what circumstances?”

so far, relating to marnie HARD. and im only 23, she’s 38!!! maybe i need to embrace my youth more and not pretend im older than i am. i have a feeling im going to love this book, i already underlined the first opening line

this book just gets darker and darker and I’m waiting for some hope to come through!

this book opened up with the craziest line and i already know it is going to get much, much worse from here. "i was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that i too had loved, that i was capable of suffering and that i was human after all.

i feel like i need a spark notes or reading guide to help me understand and i dont know what points to stop at since theres no chapters but so far very deep and sad.

my fave lines so far:
"... the key to a long life with another, the key that kept it from being a prison, wasn't devotion, which I had a talent for, but forgiveness, which was something I had to learn"
"... death isn't just something that happens to us but something we carry within us, our own deaths and the deaths of others, of worlds, the marvel is we have lasted so long"

i picked up this book at barnes and noble the other day because i thought hey, i could read about a patient who stays in the ICU right? well, it seems debatable now. being a new nurse, i almost felt like this book had too much description. i know it's been 5 years already but i still get war flashbacks when reading about COVID.

now that im on chapter/part 3, it has sooo many beautiful lines and i love it so far!

so far i think i like the series more than the book but i think i'll have to finish this book and the other two before making my final decision. also why did i forget that taylor was plotting on the brothers too i swear that wasn't in the series???
the time jumps are a bit confusing for me

off to a slow start so far but it is setting up a lot of background!

this is the first time in a long time i have read a book and not wanted to finish it in one sitting because its THAT good. i love the progression of noras character. we all just want to understand the different choices we could have made and not live with any regrets at the same time.

this book is devastatingly good so far. makes me think a lot about my own life and what my book of regrets would look like