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it’s 2am and I cannot put this book down but I don’t want it to end

respectfully, how does sophie forget that she is living out a part of her own book? babes you wrote that, how did you not make the connection earlier😂 I’m enjoying this book but girl 😅

I think this is my second lisa jewell book and I definitely like her writing 🫡

JAW ON THE FLOOR. everybody read this book pls.

“She’d rather Oli be a heterosexual fornicator than a gay one. I was a heterosexual fornicator and I too was banished, but that isn’t wholly her fault, I’ve concluded over time, because society has massively different sexual standards for men and women that were imposed onto her too, not just me. She just reacted from those impositions.”

why is this page breaking my heart

“And in that case, there will at least be snowflakes, until the bitter end.”

“I don’t need snowflakes.”

“As long as there’s January.”

CRYING

“it seemed like a beautiful thing to have, somebody giving you their lime wedge” 🥹

“that’s how it was back then. I was supposed to be the inspiration for some man’s great idea.
Well, fuck that.
that’s why I started writing my own stuff.”

“ “she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day”, Woolf wrote. “

“And it’s true. How easy to be dead. How lucky to be alive, even for just one day.”

“goodbye harry. goodbye daughter. goodbye mother. goodbye father. goodbye husband. goodbye, goodbye.”

“it’s nice to be seen in this moment. nice not to fear the sight of other people. she is the only person she is afraid of now — she is the only one here who just tried to kill her.”