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“How has it never occurred to me that an elevator is like a car pointing up? An elevator car”

Y’all know I love Patchett, however this story is SO SIMILAR in structure to Tom Lake 😆

“If you don’t wanna engage with someone, then don’t engage. Don’t smack the side of the car that cuts you off at the cross walk because the person in the car might have a gun.

Don’t think you get to say your piece and then walk away.”

Oh mama Patchett is writing in this one!!! 🔥🥰

“Your children were yours until they were 8. Now they need to be sent away to become something else. It was a necessary rupture.”

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“He didn’t want the world. Here is where he belonged. He wanted to shout “all I want from this world is someone to love. And here you are”. 😍

This was cute but I really didn’t care for the characterization. Also I couldn’t suspend disbelief around somethings in this book.🫠

Overall felt this was overhyped (most likely had a huge marketing budget). won’t have missed much if I didn’t read it

“Old guys love me. They’ve always loved me.”

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“I have to have something to show at the end of this life.

If I’m for hell then I deserve a love that was worth it.”

❤️😍🥰

Chapter 20 - OMG!!! 😧

“He was one of those people I didn’t know how to touch.

A handshake would seem too business like.

A hug was impossible”

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“The idea that you are kinder to your kin was untrue.

Because his father said things to him and treated him in ways he would never dream of with any other human.

The worst boss in the world was always a father.”

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“I was having an unusual experience of presence. . . I was also walking into my past.”

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“If it weren’t for the singer, she wouldn’t exist.

Songs are instruments of faith. “

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“For me the mornings are often the hardest part of the day.

For me the day often seems impossible in the morning and then okay once it gets going. “

This book is intriguing 😍

“In my desperation to reach my daughter, I was sprinting away from her. “


I won’t be surprised if this makes the Booker long list. Feels so much like Kitamura’s Audition. 😍

Throw me into unreliable abstract nothingness and you have my full attention ❤️

“He wondered how the could know so much about people when he knew so few of them.”

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“In order to control the story, you have to tell the story.“

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“He was good with the kids. He was practically Mary Poppins.”

This is such a random book, like morning pages type of random 😆

“Dying might be bad but not the worst thing to happen to someone. Dying and nobody showing up to your funeral was glaringly worse.”

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“He drove his car as if he was challenging death around every corner .”

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“A Chanel handbag allowed you get ahead in life. But only if no one could tell it was fake.”

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“She couldn’t abide being alone so she stuffed her live with people. If she wasn’t with people, she was on the phone.”

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“You have the worst memory in the history of mankind.

If there was an oblivion Olympics, you’d win a gold medal in every category.

I’d wonder what the categories would be. I’d ask you but I’m sure you’d have forgot.”


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“He was never pushy but he had the quiet determination of water.”

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“our deepest bonds remain the mirror and the gun.”

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“When you find a place for yourself in the world it feels like music.”

Not my gist but I do understand the hype.

So Brave and Beautiful ❤️🥹🥰

“When someone treats you poorly, it is a reflection of him or herself and the misery in the heart of them.”

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“It’s sad when you do a wonderful thing and people aren’t interested in you anymore.”

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“Honestly it was like my mother was the makeup of his skeletal system. She died and the bones disappeared.”


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“That’s friendship for you - accepting no one is perfect and valuing what they can provide over what they can’t.

You can’t enjoy the benefits of her strengths without accepting the realities of her weakness. “

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“They say your childhood bedroom is a window into your future.”

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“That’s the beauty of London - most people don’t care about strangers.”

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