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I need to stop reading books that make me cry when I’m sat next to strangers on trains

‘And even knowing that you're alive my life will be a lot better’

‘Just to hear that sound once again, he thinks. To feel that his life has been preserved somewhere and not forgotten, gathered around him, packed protectively around him still.’ 💔

‘I was not K's doctor, and I was not his lover, but I could have put my thumbs into his elbows and cupped my hands around their edges, which were sharper than his bones as I had previously known them. I could have drawn the last outline of his body. I had always suspected that my head would fit into a perfect place his joints made for me.’

I was not K's doctor, and I was not his lover, but I could have put my thumbs into his elbows and cupped my hands around their edges, which were sharper than his bones as I had previously known them. I could have drawn the last outline of his body. I had always suspected that my head would fit into a perfect place his joints made for me.

‘She's a fish out of water, really. No, it's not that. She's a fish that the other fish refuse to make a space for.’ Another book another feminist slay. Fuck the patriarchy so much

Charity shop find because I wanted to read on the train and the book I brought with me turned out to be dystopian sci fi. I have high hopes for this book from the first 11 pages :)

‘They think about it, sometimes. Once, even, at the same time, when a song they'd liked plays over the credits of a film they both see, and it leaves them warm, and half-sad, and reflective.
But they are themselves. Full of spaces that don't need to be filled, imprints in the mattress and the carpets of the houses they no longer live in, getting on in ways they had wanted.’

This book is so bloody beautiful

‘He knows he should buy them more drinks, but he also doesn't want to stand and break this thing they re cradling; this fragile, near dying thing they ve passed between them for five whole years.’ This was meant to be a flimsy little summer interim book but it’s actually breaking me oh my Lord

‘He wonders, vaguely, if he'll regret it, but turns to see Rosie at the table with her rained-on hair and her swollen eyes and knows he would swap her for Thailand tomorrow, and the next day, and he can make a decent pad thai, anyway, and the world isn't going anywhere’

Slay queen - ‘Seventeen is just the start. She will work hard, she will do all that she is supposed to do, and her life will be good and right and whole, filled with music and poetry and wine and sex, and life-altering moments that last longer than three minutes, and don't leave her with bruises down her back.
That is her plan.’

This book is crazy!! So many different elements of history being covered, and it’s so beautifully written.