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“You’re the most loyal person I’ve ever met. You’re fully on my team. Now that you’re here, I think there’s very little I can do to kick you out. I don’t have to worry about losing you, I can just relax.”

“If this doesn’t work, I’m going to have to pull my last card and call him daddy.” lmaooo

“It’s good to bring her up. People like to hear about the things other people love.” “Nobody wants to hear about dead friends.”

“What would you even do with a car besides sit behind the wheel and make vroom vroom noises?” 😂😂😂

“Falling in love is the fun part, staying in love is a chore”

“I want something that feels natural, even if it’s not always sexy b/c relationships change so much while you’re in them and so do the people. Even if you start out wanting one thing, a few years down the road, you might want something different.”

“Who wants Prince Charming? I want someone as screwed up as I am so I don’t suffer by comparison.”

“I know it’s not easy to talk about her. Just like it’s not easy to not talk about her.”

“I want to carry a framed 8x10 of her everywhere I go. If I’m with people who didn’t know her, I want to talk about her incessantly. If I’m with people who did know her, I can’t figure out why they’re not talking about her incessantly.”

“It’s awful to go back to the place they were but aren’t anymore”

“Finding a grief counselor, making an appt, clearing it w my insurance, hauling my ass to the appt, and then talking about Lou to a stranger? Literally impossible”

“What am I supposed to do? Wear a sign: Not strung out just having a debilitating mental health crisis while navigating the most excruciating chapter of my life”

*making items for the Live Again list*
“Can there be no more items for now? It hurts to think about” “I feel I should warn you it’s probably never going to not hurt, just thought you should know”

“The thing about losing the person you love the most on Earth, somehow you still have to do mundane things like tie your shoes and make enough to continue to exist in this punishing world”

"She was like a doll that wets or cries 'Mama': the disposable Amelie. You can brush her hair, take off her little outfits, twist her limbs this way and that, and then, if you like, you can just toss her away. Bye-bye, Disposable Amelie. Because there's always a bright new toy waiting on the shelf." This is the first decent analogy I've read throughout the book even though it had me singing Barbie Girl in my head.

"[...] And she didn't know why she said it, why there was something problematic in taking Ben's son from point A to point B, why he was any different than his sister. Somewhere in the crevices of the equation, in the esoteric angles of its logic, lay some further problem, something unclear that might get in the way, throw off the equation, skew the result." See what I mean? The author constantly does this!!!!

“She stopped this line of thinking immediately, for by the end of the hour she would have come to despise the ugly witless gnome that her lover had become in her estimation.” Like this book is giving me tonal whiplash because why is it modern day and then turns medieval like this???

Part of me does feel like maybe her daughter’s new man is also Ben but part of me just feels like maybe that’s me hoping because that would be interesting and the book is so fucking boring lol

I think the author tried overly hard to make this book seem well-written by overdoing similes and metaphors throughout and trying to articulate their thinking because it’s 3rd person POV and it just comes out as wordy and not memorable because it’s just too much if that makes sense. Like I’m on chapter 37 and there’s nothing notable that has happened or been described.

"Why don't you go run to your woman, why don't you go and let her have the pleasure of your middle aged body. One of these days and it's a guarantee, Richard, one of these days you'll rise from bed and she'll crack open her big vacant eyes&she'll look at you and say 'Omg what have I done, why am I living w/this saggy lump of human waste?' & then you'll try to come back&I won't be alone'

READ HIM FOR FILTH LMAOOOOO

All the analogies & the smilies every other sentence are so distracting from the plot

Weird that I’m 59 pages in and this is the second that it was mentioned Amelie has never had a problem w weight? Like ok? Is her being thin and snatched have some premise to the plot orrrrr?

Amelie is me af when my man and I get into it, now I gotta fix it before I enjoy anything again.

Why do I have a feeling that Nina is following in her mom’s footsteps & playing side chick to her professor? 👀

“It was strange how nothing was ever truly final. People might return, change their minds, take back their words.”

“Sorry I was staring. It’s your eyes.”
“What’s wrong with them?”
“Well, that’s the thing. Nothing’s wrong. They’re killer eyes. It’s a shade of blue I don’t think I’ve ever seen before. It’s probably why the camera fell in love with you.”

"The craziest thing about parenting must be that it's this huge experiment and you have no idea whether it's successful until, like, decades later."

"I'm shitty at talking about personal stuff not only because I feel awkward talking about myself, but also because I don't like turning a conversation into a downer."

"I love you, Millie, I do. But I think you're worth more than just the easy parts. And I need someone who thinks I'm worth it, too."

The fact that Rhys didn’t reveal to even his inner circle what Feyre had revealed to the Bone Carver in exchange for info melted my heart bc Tamlin couldn’t keep a secret from Ianthe or Lucien 🙄