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“Two parts contentment, one part desire.”

“What a thing it must be to be indifferent to indifference.”

i feel so connected to Cleo. that’s my kin

i keep striking gold with every book i read. i’m somehow mindlessly finding the best authors who write perfectly for my mind and my heart and my soul. i ADORE this book so far

i LOVE the way Evie Woods writes. i want to read every book she’s ever published.

“gelatogasm” I LOVE THIS BOOK

Tia Williams you perfect genius woman

“‘You’re a very strange person,’ he said worshipfully.”

need this

“a cherub of a woman”

oh i’m finishing this book today

Andy you would love the song We Hug Now by Sydney Rose

“Why did I once overhear her describe the colour navy as her “religion” to a female friend? And why did the female friend not question her on that but instead nod in agreement?”

girlhood 💕

“YOU’VE RUINED THE SEA,”

jesus christ Dolly!

“Maybe I’ll just stop wanking altogether.”
“No, you mustn’t do that,” he says gravely. “Samuel Johnson said: ‘Having a penis is being imprisoned with a mad man. But you must let the mad man speak.’”

learning a lot from this book

“I take a photo on my phone of the jumper and the shirt in case I forget what it feels like to be loved.”

i already know what this book is about to do to me and i’m gonna keep reading anyway!

“But maybe he’s right—maybe I’m not so bad, maybe even a good person, and we’ll have a happy family together. Some people do, don’t they? Have happy families, I mean. I know you didn’t, and I didn’t. But Alice, I’m still so glad we were born.”

i just started bawling. this Sally Rooney bitch is crazy.

this book is soooooo Normalcy by Gigi Perez

“Maybe we’re just born to love and worry about the people we know, and to go on loving and worrying even when there are more important things we should be doing.”

the rawness, the realness, the imperfection, the vulnerability, the poignancy.. i’m so in love with this book already