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“Politics will help you understand the world until you don’t understand it anymore, and then it will get you thrown into a prison camp. Politics and religion both.”

“Libby Monroe kissed me, and dream or not, it was the realest thing I’ve ever felt.”

Chapter three hurt my feelings.

Hooked by the end of the first chapter is always a great sign.

If you see this, no you don’t. It was recommended and available. I’m 35% through and 👌🏼 this close to DNFing. Don’t look at me like that. 👀

“I don’t want to go in just yet…I just want to sit and not have to think about-“ he swallowed, even in the half dark it seemed effortful. “I just want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress… just for a few minutes more.”

Not until I looked into a pair of ocean blue eyes and realized that drowning was a beautiful thing. Not until I looked into a pair of fiery blue eyes and realized that burning was a painless thing. Not until I looked into a pair of sky-blue eyes and realized that perhaps falling was a peaceful thing. I’d never thought about what my favorite color was before because I hadn’t seen one that was worthy of the title.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I can wake up every single day and choose you, over and over and over again. If you’re in bed next to me, I will take your hand. If you are not, I will find you. I will spend the rest of my life, if I get that lucky, seeking you out. Not because I promised you or because you’re there. But because I will want to. I will want to be beside you. Every day. Forever. Every morning, I wake up and I think, God, yes, her.

“And I want to know when you knew what was happening between us and I want to tell you when I knew. And I want to hold your hand in a quiet corner and I want to lie in bed and hear your heartbeat through your chest. I want to bring you coffee in bed. And I want to hear you tell me anything you’ve always wanted to tell someone. Because you know that you’ve met someone who desperately wants to listen.”

“Can you give me that? Let me think that right now, the wrong woman won, okay? Let the world be as I see it for just tonight. Without too many gray areas and caveats. Where I know I’m mortal but I’m not sure that you’re not a god,” she said. And then her voice got barely above a whisper as she leaned in. “Can you do that for me?”And what escaped Joan’s lips was “Yes.”

“I’m giving you the abbreviated version. My father’s alcoholism is like a footnote to every chapter of my life. Sometimes I feel like I’ll never be free of it.” -Henry

oh my god no. 😭

Wow.

No god take me instead.

What the fuck.

Well, this wasn’t a good choice for me.

“I have a strange feeling with regard to you. As if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs tightly knotted to a similar string in you. And if you were to leave, I’m afraid that cord of communion would snap. And then I’ve a notion that I’d take to bleeding inwardly.” -Jane Eyre

I’m in love. 🥰

“Evelyn, you are not capable of giving it up, and you never will be, and it will be the tragedy of my life that I cannot love you enough to make you mine; that you cannot be loved enough to be anyone’s.”