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“can you just let me be sad? can you just let it hurt?… i promise i’ll get back up, but for just a minute, let me fall.”
emotions are so important!!!!! feel everything you can to fullest extent!!!! it’s what makes us human!!!!!!! <3
(also i’ve gotten back into this book over the last few days after slumping out after vacay last month n it’s still so good!! excited to finally see how it all ends soon :))

only two chapters in but already so intrigued about the tension between frankie and george… such a strong bond that’s both shown and told, but also an underlying interest in what the fuck is really going on between these two.. and i’m rather excited to continue!!!!!
“he was like a stray cat. he kept showing up. we kept feeding him. he stuck around. he helped keep us together as much as we helped him.” <33

a lesbian sex scene??!!!! someone make this movie so i can see it pls!!!!
show it to me rachel!!!!!!

“i want that little volcano of a woman to erupt on my set.”
i loveeeee the theater/film/acting talk so far!!!
as a huge fan and appreciator of all of those things, i love when people speak about it all in such beautiful ways and kennedy ryan is doing that sooo well so far!!!!
i love it!!!!

“jazz washes away the dust of everyday life.”
love this quote!!!
also i’m soooo happy to be reading a new-to-me kennedy ryan! it’s felt like so long!!!! :)
and what a start to this story… my goodness!
excited to keep going!!

“i am stunned by the familiarity of the way he tasters and the feel of his mouth against mine—that my sense memory reaches back over so many decades feels like a drunken form of dejà vu.”
<333
i love this book!!!!!!!

“but with the girls gone, the energy shifts. it is just the two of us, for the first time in twenty years.”
first of all.. i just noticed when typing that quote that it’s supposed to be thirty years… editing mistake!! lol!
second of all.. i’m enamored with this book!! knicks won the championship last night and the nyc vibes feel ever better bc of it!! and i’m also just loving this romance!!! like a lot!!!

“… like we both already know this but. like it’s a regular game we play. his eyes soften when he looks down at me; it’s as if i’ve elicited that despise in him a thousand times before, and now i am simply remembering it.”
<33

randomly found this at barnes and got it bc the synopsis reminded me soooo much of one of my all time favs, before we were strangers by renee carlino <33
i’m on vacation reading this so i’m hoping i’ll get thru its about 200 pages pretty quick!! :) looking forward to it!!!

waitttttt ready or not characters!!!! hiiiiii!!!!!!!!

first veryyyyy minor complaint so far (i’m on the second to last chapter)… i wish there were more moments of vin at this open mic thing!!
learning what it finally is now is making me realize it’s been a while since we had one of those moments and we only had a few at all… i wish we had more!! at least a couple more!! i love them!!

“he pushes his yankees cap even higher on his head and leans over the console for another bite of the breakfast sandwich i’m holding for him.”
yet another quote that i’m obsessed with… this book is everything to me!!!!
(also this quote feels so new york which i love so much and with the knicks in the finals and mamdani as mayor.. what a city to be in rn! i’m sooo jealous!!! <3)

my aunt has been raving about this book and she sent me a copy a couple months ago (along w a book embosser with my name on it for my library) :’)
so now i’m finally getting to it!!
later this week, i’ll be leaving for my weeklong vacation and i have priority plans to read other books… but i’m still gonna try to get thru this!! i’m excited!! :)

“he steps up to me and cups my face in two gentle hands. ‘i could have endured anything, baby, if i knew it was going to get me here.’”
i love them so much this chapter was insane <33

i ran out of characters with my last update but y’all that entire ending of chapter 15 of him talking about her smile…………. i could cry real tears i love this book <33333333333333333333333 :’)

“some people have a smile that just…it’s like a knife… it’s like suffocating, but in a good way? it’s something that you can only see in real life… when someone is experiencing actual happiness and calmness and…goodness… she was just happy to see raff… i knew that i wanted to know what it would feel like to be on the receiving end of… that exact smile from that exact person.”

“and that’s how i’d known he was sticking around. the way he said baby. like it had been my name all along. like we’d always been together, and always would be.”
:’’’)
<333

chapter 14 was one of my favorites so far!!!!!
so so so so sweet and lovey <3

“the lock turns and he steps off the doormat, into the house, locking us in.”
firstly… i’m loving this book sm holy shit……
secondly.. this quote is so sweet in the context of the scene, but seems so sinister on its own lmaooo like it’s from a thriller… which this kinda is if u think about it.. it’s a emo romance, which is kinda a thriller… it’s not all smiles and happiness!! i love it!!!!! :)

BEYONCEEEEEEEE

“that’s one thing about vin, you can put your back to a room full of people and he’ll keep an eye on the whole world for you.”
i love this writing so much <333

“i put my heart in her chest and she carries it around. and she’ll put flowers on my grave.”
omfg :’’( this is so sweet in such a sad way <3
i’m loving this book!!!!!!!!

he cooked her dinner :( <33

“With Vin…on our first date, I watched him slide his wallet into his back pocket after paying for the meal and something about it literally made me blush. His hand (big fingers, veins, you get it) holding the door open for me. He got me the last seat on the bus and then stood facing me, his belt buckle at eye level.”
hotttt <3 loving this book so far!!!!

“well, she walked in, wearing that sweater, and her hair and that smile and i just… recognized her. that’s the best i can describe it. i saw her and thought, here comes my wife.”
veryyy solid start!! if it keeps going this way, i think i’m gonna really like this one… :)

loved ready or not, really didn’t vibe with promise me sunshine… let’s see what i think about no matter what!!

this is a much sweeter moment than i ever expected <3
idk why it’s kinda funny a little too bc it just seems inconceivable that he’d know how to sign a lot of these words after a somewhat short amount of time (at least in what i think is not much time!) lol …. but it’s so sweet!!! :’)

“it feels like i’m drifting out to sea, away from her. the more time that goes by, the more difficult it is to get to the shore. i’m lost in the ocean with no hope of finding my way back to land... life is so fucking unfair.”
:’(
this just breaks my heart 3
death can go suck a big fat fucking ugly ass dick!

“hudson laughs again, and the sound is like coming home. a sunday morning in bed and warm coffee when it’s cold outside.”
i loveeeeee when hearing a laugh is described as a feeling!!!!! it’s so sweet!!!!!!!

“father’s eyes still belong to me, that uncanny sea green; wide-set, large… but mother has shown herself in a tour de force. i have her cheekbones, her way of raising my eyebrows, and the heritage of the women of this family: a dimpled chin. my hair is dark and unruly, a gift from my portuguese maternal grandmother. and across the bridge of my nose? a constellation of freckles.”
so beautifully said!! i love!!