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I adore the writing and humor from this story. It’s cheeky and witty with a Victorian flare.
“How does one accidentally find oneself in possession of a wife? Is she aware she’s an accident?”

Paragraph 5 on marriage. “That’s the key to marriage. You have to keep falling in love with every new version of each other, and it’s the best feeling in the world. “

Super annoyed by January’s character constantly jumping to assumptions of Gus and how she makes everything out to be about her. She’s so hung up on the fact that he was married and divorced and didn’t tell her despite the fact they’ve only known each other about a month. He’s not entitled to tell her his whole life story just because she wants to know it.

Chapter 19 How we view work

A very insightful chapter of how we are trained by society to strive for ‘work work work’ and to ‘succeed, and don’t be a burden’ by constantly feeling the pressure to give up pieces of ourselves and years of our lives in order to make a living. Contributing to society’s expectations becomes more important than personal happiness which results in depression and loneliness.

“…dreams aren’t everything. Life is to complicated. Just because you’ve achieve your dreams doesn’t mean you’ll always be happy.”
“Perhaps he was miserable because he was trying to simplify a life that was meant to be complex”

“Books are not meant to remain in your mind, but in your heart”

If I was the type of person to annotate I’d be annotating the F out of this book. There would be so many sentences marked to come back to in the future and reflect on. I can already tell this is the type of book that a person can come back to again and again and get something new from it.