Loreal Patterson > Recent Status Updates

This is quite the buildup. I hope whatever is on the other side of this is good.

He’s so deranged it’s comical

Since my last read by John Marrs, I knew I needed more from his catalog and this one is already starting off good!

Is everybody in on this?!

This is feeling sort of YA-ish

“Being good to somebody is just like being mean to somebody. Risky. You don’t get nothing for it.”

“But my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else’s. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain’t that something? A secondhand lonely.” - Sula

I have been waiting for this line!!!

“…I sure did live in this world.” - Sula

“Whatever’s burning in me is mine!” - Sula

“I don’t want to make somebody else. I want to make myself.” - Sula

I know that’s right!!

They did not believe death was accidental - life might be, but death was deliberate.

This is extremely overdue

Regrets, by definition, are the least punctual of emotions

“If all we need is love, why do we always want more?”

Don’t you love when they come out swinging 😂
Mind you, this is the first line! I’m SAT!

I feel like this is going to be a 5 star read

“Anything less than the truth is a lie.” - Dr. Arroyo-Abril

“Communication only works when you say what you mean.” - Dr. Arroyo-Avril

“Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.” - Ricki

I love when a book includes real historical figures

He was music I could listen to forever

Someone once said, “I’m sorry isn’t an apology; it’s a habitual way of restoring balance to the conversation.”

I’m giggling and kicking my feet 😂

They are just sooo cute!

Okay, Lionel about that life!! 😂

This is moving a lot slower than expected

I enjoyed The Sun Down Motel so much, I had to pick this up!

There are so many possible suspects and I think I may know who’s behind it, but I keep second guessing myself. Either way, this story is keeping me on my toes!

I know we still have 5 months to go but I’m feeling like this will be my top read of 2025!

“…leaving Saint to consider how nothing was ever purely sudden. Every feeling had a history that could unbury the dead and still find some life.”