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"Your brother enters a room, and people unwittingly think it must turn about him, for he wears the title. They can't see their world is already turning... and you are the axis point. Are you not tired, brave Atlas, from holding up all the world on your shoulders?" omg I LOVE Rosalie love love love

"People see what they want to see. It is the great failing of man that so few look beyond the superficial to see what lies within."

Rosalie: Ahh, she jilted you. Which for a man, of course, is worse than if she had died.
Tom: What makes you say that?
Rosalie: Because if she had died, you'd have a clean break. The heart can heal and move on. When one is jilted, it becomes a wound that festers. I see the sickness in you now.

“Please stop placing the word ‘intimate’ before each utterance of ‘friend’ or I shall start to think you have the wrong idea about me, sir.” 😂😂😂 I love her

“Give her a man full of curious opinions and crude manners if it meant he actually behaved as himself, and not as some manicure version deemed palatable for tender ladies.” — literally the premise of the Dracula essay I wrote for class. I think it perfectly encapsulates men and women in the Victorian era

“This is a romance hotline, right?”
“In theory.”

LITERALLY ONLY LAUGHING BC GRAYCE WOULD DIE LOL

Blocked her daughter’s phone from calling the station she worked at? Weird.

“I don’t want something perfect; I want something honest. Something that can be mine. I think it’s time I make my own magic, kiddo.” 🥹

“I had to touch myself after you left the closet. Did you know that? I fucked my fist and thought about doing exactly what I’m doing right now.”

🌵 the way that would have made me dry up like the Sahara. Cuz no way you jacked off in a closet when we could have just fucked in there. Idk 🤷🏼‍♀️

I love my neck sucked just as much as the next person but at my big age of 28, don’t leave hickeys on me where people can see them unless I approve of it. 😕 obviously Lucie approves but just leaving them so other people can see them is crazy.

L: You have a pineapple pizza?
A: I do.
L: You said pineapple on pizza is disgusting.
A: It is.
L: Then why do you have it?
A: Because you said it was your favorite. And I want your favorite to be my favorite.
🥺🥺🥺🥺

I hope someone puts content to compartmentalize on my headstone 🪦

The author seems to force us to feel their connection rather than show it. “He’s always doing that. Asking me. Checking in.” “No one has ever fussed over me the way Aidan does.” 🙄🙄🙄

Seems like this author uses wine as a crutch to be relatable/funny 🙄

“I got my hopes up. All for a shitty guy in cropped chinos and boat shoes without socks. I should have known as soon as I stepped foot in the restaurant. He was blond, for god’s sake.” That’s so real. Blondes are the worst. 😂😂😂 white men period.

Why is Aidan giving “touch her & die” energy and he barely knows her? Idk this book is just kinda cringe 😬

“Thank you very much for your insight, man who has been divorced three times.” 😂😂😂

"I like thinking that I'd be worth the trouble of something like that. I like thinking that maybe it doesn't have to be fancy to be special. Maybe they'd remember I like fountain soda best or daisies instead of roses. Little things that'd let me know they'd been paying attention. I like that. Thinking I'm worth paying attention to. Something ordinary made extraordinary by the person you're sharing it with."

As a Kansas City native, I thought we were the only one who pronounced our city with an accent, like "cans-uh city" and now I'm finding out Baltimore natives pronounce Baltimore "bawl-mer." Interesting.

Idk, I hate sounding like a hater because I don't hate the book or the concept of the book, but the writing is just so cliche and gives off a try-hard to be deep vibe. The way Aiden describes her laugh as twinkling and Lucie describes his voice as "coffee over ice, thunder in the distance" like okkkk? like, I get the meaning, I think? (smooth, growl, comforting sounding) but I don't know why it has to be so basic.

I don't hate the book, but I hate the way the author writes. For example, "I toy with some of the studs pierced through the cartilage of my ear, a nervous habit I've never been able to shake." like ok??? She's playing with her earrings you mean? The author sounds like me when I'm trying to meet a word count for an essay. What tf did you write all that for?

"I don't know what I want for myself. It's all twisted up in the things I think I deserve, then squashed under the things I'm brave enough to reach for. I don't think I've ever thought about any of it long enough to know what I want."

"When the whole world tells you you're silly for wanting the things you want, you start to believe them. You start to think you're not worth it. That if the things you're waiting for do exist, they're not for someone like you."

"I don't want to settle for something just to say I have it."

Lucie's Maya sounds like my Mya <3

Jackson’s mom abandoned his sisters to join a “traveling harmonica band”? This book just gets stupider and stupider and I’m only 5 pages in.

What is with authors putting the word "douche-canoe" in their books? I've never even heard this phrase IRL, but it seems like something the people who call kids "crotch goblins" would say, not two straight (I'm assuming) men would say to each other.

"I've discovered people don't want to be told how to fix their lives or be held accountable. They just want to hear themselves talk and validate their own narcissism."

I wish I sounded like my soul was being sucked out of my body between the hours of six and midnight 🤪🤪 okay, I’m done, but Aidan and Jackson both sound sassy af in this conversation. I’d think they were about to get together if I didn’t know better

"This is, after all, still a cage."

I'm just glad it acknowledges that the zoo is still a cage because this book was bordering on zoo propaganda for a minute. Well, it's still zoo propaganda because this book is largely aimed at children and they're not going to understand.