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crying

s c r e a m i n g

a golf club???

“He doesn’t know why being near his family feels like wearing clothing tailored for somebody else, pinching and pulling ever so slightly, never a chance to forget that it isn’t his own.”

*throws Kindle across my room*

W
T
F

SCREAMING

fuck

“Being left behind was her first language, how she measured her connections to others.”

In his childhood bedroom??? 😏

smile for me, daddy
letme see ya grill

The Parent Trap reference on October 11th? 🤌🏽

Not the PT Cruiser. 💀

This goddamn book is puttin’ me through it.

oh. my. GOD.

A FEDORA??? 🥴

“It took me ages to fall in love with Manhattan; it’s got a wretched, frenetic feel to it that kind of rattles the mind, but there’s too much of a heartbeat, too much history here to write it all off due to brick and asphalt.”

“In the silence, Amy glanced at the bookshelf, at the romance novels and the white stretch marks on their spines. Their frivolity was in conflict to the austere setting, and their obsessive overuse was evidence of the need to escape: a means to focus on simplicity, on comfort, on things that made sense.”

““Someday,” she whispered, as her fingers played through my damp hair, “you will have a full life. A home, if you want one. And you’ll see more than these stones and mountains and sky. And I’ll be with you when you first touch the sea. You’ll feel sand between your toes, and salt water on your tongue, and you will feel more joy than you can fathom. I promise.””

“There were women—I’d seen them—who were lit from within, and when they became wives that light dampened. I did not know if it was their husbands that doused their flames, or if they themselves curled up around it, their very souls trying to protect it from extinguishing. Regardless, I had been prepared to watch myself dim.”

“I’m incapable of looking at him any other way. My face won’t allow it.”

Okay sooo I'm revisiting books I read when I was younger. Was this my first enemies-to-lovers/arranged marriage???