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“You’ve spent months trying to forget what you’re missing…. How will you survive being reminded? Loving the loss of it all over again?”

“Everything combusted at once, and somehow I still thought we’d make it. When he promised to love me forever, I believed him. That was what made me the angriest, with both of us.”

“…suddenly more of my heart belongs to him than doesn’t, and I know I’ll never get a single grain back.”

I don’t know what’s more annoying - the constant talk of the high bun or the constant mention of freaking cinnamon rolls

If I have to read about the bun one more time 🫠

“There’s more to life than the things in front of you… Sometimes we hold on to things we shouldn’t. People. Places. Emotions. We try to control all of it, when what we should be doing is trusting in something bigger.”

“But the thing that gnaws at me the most is that the one person I trusted in this shit world hurt me the worst. He gave me what I wanted more than anything—love, safety. Then he took it away. He can never fix that.”

“I decided to no longer wonder what would have happened if things had worked out differently. And instead, I would focus on what was in front of me.”

“My lips parted against his, and like before it seemed natural to suck at his mouth, to let his tongue touch mine, to taste his sounds.”

“I found myself unable to look away from his mouth, imagining being tasted.”

“I wanted to feel him. I wanted to explore his body like it belonged to me. I wanted to know him with all my senses, with my hands and my eyes and my mouth. I wanted to hear his heartbeat and smell the warmth that clung to his skin.”

I really like this book but I’m getting kinda annoyed on how both are so oblivious that the other likes em.

I love this book so far. It’s made me laugh and cry and I’m only 19% in.

“ i blew up a twin-size air mattress and covered it with a thick, red, patterned Aztec blanket. I’d brought some heavy blankets and pillows and propped them against the back window so we had something to lean on… Then I plugged in some white Christmas lights to a portable power inverter and ran those along the sides to give us some light to eat by.” - May this kind of love find me one day

Elsie gets on my nerves

I’ve been kinda irritated the whole book because I just wanted to know wtf happened in that bbq and they just let us know like 50% into the book lol so now I’m hoping I enjoy it more.

Not a fan of the going backwards in time

The writing is lacking for me. It feels like just spewing out events, like a journal entry.

This book so boring so far 😑

“Is she happy? For portions of every day, she is happy. When she’s standing beneath a tree, for instance, listening to the leaves vibrating in the wind…”

“Do you know what happens…When you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water? … “It jumps out. But do you know what happens when you put the frog in a pot of cool water and then slowly bring it to a boil? You know what happens then? … “The frog cooks.”

“How do you ever know for certain that you are doing the right thing?”

Still haven’t gotten into it- not sure where it’s going it what it’s truly about

This is essentially a religious book

1. Why would Nia long have read this book and decide that she would voice it?

2. She’s a dog now?? But why? I’m over this book lol

What am I even reading? Don’t think I’ll finish this.

I feel like I’m getting dumber by the second listening to this book -

“Sometimes our forever life does not last as long as we think.”

“You love the people they were before, below all the awfulness that made them do this thing, you know?”