Kristy > Recent Status Updates

"Foolish to hope. But how does one go on not hoping?"

"Survival is victory. Maybe you think you don't deserve it or maybe you're beating yourself up for fighting back because that's how the world tells women to feel when they take charge of their fates. You aren't disposable. You don't owe anyone anything. No one else was looking out for you that day. Your last best hope was you."

"And of course no one should ever confuse being nice with being a good person."

Okay, despite my previous grumblings (and they're still valid)...I'm becoming invested now.

"Not everyone is psychologically capable of entering such a space." ...oh, ya think?

Let me get this straight.... We have one best friend who somehow convinced the anxiety-ridden one to go caving and is insufferably joking about ways to die. And the other best friend has been secretly stalking around in the other one's apartment for no apparent reason. ....ladies, I don't know what you two are exactly but you are definitely not best friends.

It's too early in the book to be finding fault, but I am. Girl, you have generalized anxiety disorder and you barely made it to check your house before you left (I am not making fun; I can relate!)...you have NO business going into a cave. None.
(Also, how the HELL is a cave a "controlled environment"??)

"...especially in a controlled environment like a cave." Excuse me. What?

"You could offer the heart all the instruction you wanted. The heart was often hard of hearing."

"Maybe therapy, like so many things worth doing, hurts when you first start."

Me, for 60% of this book: "Why am I reading this? Why is there so much smut? (How is it possible to have this much smut in one book?!) Why can't I stop reading this stupid thing?"

Me, during the last 30% when they've caught actual feelings: Beaming like an idiot and snorting with giddy laughter. 😍😁

"She suspected that some sort of law required wisdom and loss to be partners. At least they always seemed to ride together."

"When it came to not talking, she could outlast anyone. And she felt more comfortable with stillness than conversation."

"Sometimes it seemed as if the world itself was broken, that there was something wrong with all of us, something broken in such a way that it might not be put together again. But the holding of hands, human hand in human hand, could help."

"Houses are funny like that, aren't they? Made new by new owners. All the history wiped away. Sometimes I wonder how much the buildings remember though. In the bricks, you know what I mean? Something must soak in. All those lives."

"Books were so much more than paper and words; they held magic within them and every hand they passed through was touched by that magic, forever changed, even if they did not know it."

"But life cannot be paused. It is a relentless march onward; only its path may be changed."

"...kindness is the only legacy anyone can leave."

"A book is a many-layered thing and we see but a fraction of its depth in the reading of it."

"...for there is nothing like the smell of books to awaken the soul."