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"you don't throw people away, charlotte. you keep on trying."
"who got thrown away? you don't know what the fuck you're talking about. i know he's got some good points. i know that better than anybody. but he's done with us. i'm done with him."

"she had thought the age difference between them didn't matter, but she'd been wrong. she would see a world (because she would outlive him by decades) that he would never see. what she hadn't counted on was that she would always be a few steps behind him."

started reading this now to flex on myself because i know i won't start reading it when the semester's over

thus we learn about sylvia cheating on don (which he deserves considering he's like, a serial cheater and all, but still)... i think the reason i want jj and ava to have a happy ending for themselves is because none of the other relationships in this book are actually healthy or like, good at all. even if some of them, like sylvia and don's, are complex and interesting.

not for nothing but i do really hope it works out for ava and jay ajfeklsjfk

"'i'm not a bad man,' henry said.
'who thinks he is?' jay said."

"men tried to make you believe in your own crazy. if you are hysterical they don't have to see you as an equal, look you in the eye like a person they have to respect. it suited them to make you think that all the shit they pulled, all the lies they told, were in your head."

"he wasn't looking. he was never really looking, but somehow he had no trouble finding women. to analyze the way of a cheater is a losing game. they just do it. they just will. only death or the smell of it will stop them."
DRAG HIM AND ALL CHEATERS

"i can see this house from my deck. the roof anyway."
thus begins the gatsby-jj parallels. let's hope he's less creepy.

"you don't work every day and then turn it off like a light. henry expected to feel the loss, but not at thirty-eight years old."
i have to read this book for my women's lit class. so far what i can say is that i've highlighted so many quotes. so many of them feel so raw and real.

OH UTENA SNAPPED

"for dios is just a name i used to be called."
WHAT

anthy and utena love each other so much... they can try to tell me they are both in love with the same man but i know the truth

"i want only one thing. for you to be happy... that is my will."

anthy is in love with her :((((((

akio is a reeeaaaally weird (read: creepy) dude. his relationship with anthy is also super questionable.

amazing how anthy and utena are in love

"anthy, never fear... i'll protect your happiness" uhhhhhhhh GAY

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okay so technically i have an edition of the series that combines it all into 2 books, but i can't separate that into 2 on here so... i'll just do it this way. i'm also still waiting on 2 volumes of maid sama so i figured i'd read this in the mean time!