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ive been promised another version of when harry met sally and i see it but it feels like plagiarism as of rn :/

this book is single handedly getting me out of the biggest book slump this year

reading this bc I wish I was on spring break

sorry ellie- FINALLY reading the maggies book swap book 🙏🙏🙏🙏

"... more universal challenge of squaring who you are with where you come from and where you want to go. I also realize that I was a long way, still, from finding my voice." TOO GOOD!!!!

“No wonder then that we are a nation of people, the majority of whom, across race, class, and gender, claim to be religious, claim to believe in the divine power of love, and yet collectively remain unable to embrace a love ethic and allow it to guide behavior, especially if doing so would mean supporting radical change”

“Since many women believe they will never know fulfilling love, they are willing to settle for strategies that help ease the pain and increase the peace, pleasure, and playfulness in existing relationships, particularly romantic ones”

“Im not afraid to compete. It’s just quite the opposite. Don’t you see that? Im afraid I will compete- that’s what scares me….. I’m sick of it. I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I’m sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of splash.”

“Enough. Act, Zachary Martin Glass, when and where you want to, since you feel you must, but do it with all your might. If you do anything at all beautiful on stage, anything nameless and joy-making…”

“All the quiet made me strain for hints and clues until I became an expert in my parents moods” this book is destroying me 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

“Once men get to know me, they’re sometimes interested, but I’m not the one their eyes go to first. I’ve made peace with it.”

STAB ME RN 😄😄😄😄😄😄😄

“That to love a person was to forfeit the need to place limits on them, therefore to love was to exist in a constant paralyzing threat”

“Before she knows it, she’s confessing other things: I’m actually not very good at anything in particular. I’m not really very smart. People don’t know it right away, but eventually they sort it out. Sometimes I think: no wait I’m lying, all the time I think: everyone else is right about me. I am the common factor, aren’t I? So that must mean everyone else is right.

“It’s a fire. I used to burn out, now I just burn.”

THIS IS SO GOOD

“It isn’t constancy that keeps us alive, it’s the progression we use to move us. Because everything is always the same, until very suddenly, it isn’t.”

“The world loved to take a beautiful woman and exclaim at the charm of her single imperfection.”

“Those are absurd stakes”
“And yet they are mine”

🥺🥺🥺🥺

“I make waves?”
“Like the ocean kiddo. Then you retreat before the my hit the sand.”

ouch