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I just read 10 pages surmising why women go to the restroom in packs. Very entertaining stuff 😌

Fun library pick up - published in 1993 and is pretty much obsolete with the rise of Google

“It's a small moment, but small moments are the only kind Ella Thompson can acquire. She manages to string together three or four or five such moments and call it hope.”

"Who am I to want happiness when the world is full of such sorrow?"

"Happiness and love are not finite goods to be bartered and rationed. They expand upon each other; they grow and touch others and shed light into dark corners. You should want happiness all the more for the sorry state of the world so that you can share it."

“A thousand pretty words were strung like dewdrops on a spider strand between them, glistening and unsaid and doomed to disappear with the dawn.”

linus’s monologue 🥺

i did not read the synopsis going in and didn't realize there was a theme to this collection (im slow oops). enjoying it nonetheless though now i understand why i feel melancholy after each story.

The bus driver: 7/10
The gap year: 8.5/10
Are you Happy?: 7/10

Chauncey waved at him. "I like your pajamas!"
"Um. Thank you, that's very- Would you put your arm away? You don't get tips for paying compliments!" Chauncey sighed and dropped his tentacle.

"Yeah," Talia said. "It's not his fault he's round. Right, Mr. Baker? Us round people need to stick together."

That didn't make Linus feel any
better. But he said, "Exactly.

🥺🥺

"Not everyone's mad as you, Petal," Joey tugged Olive's braid. "Takes a right bit of lunacy to throw yourself off a-“

"I'll do it."

i love abby

“School's out for the day," Joey barked, dragging Abby toward the door, "go play with your revolvers out back." The children let out a cheer as Joey tugged her down the stairs.


This book is way funnier than I expected

"Oh— fine," she laughed, "it's just. This dress. It would've turned some heads in Stillwater." And led to a public shaming by the entire congregation.

Joey opened the door, tongue poking in her cheek. "It's turnin' heads here."

AHHHHHHHHH

off to a great start!

i can taste the character development coming around the bend.

chauncey is so funny pls.

linus has been hard to like (by design) up until this point, so im excited to see his development from here!

my fav kid so far is def lucy

Phenomenal so far.

The bus driver: 7/10
The gap year: 8.5/10

every single chapter gives me heart palpitations

Holyyyyyyyyyyyyyy WTH

amanda istfg