Emma > Recent Status Updates

“And isn’t death just the apocalypse in the first person?… Maybe we’re just born to love and worry about the people we know, and to go on living and worrying even when there are more important things we should be doing.”

“Is it just that the pain I feel right now is so intense that it transcends my ability to reconstruct the pain I felt at the time? Presumably, remembered suffering never feels as bad as present suffering, even if it was really a lot worse - we can’t remember how much worse it was because remembering is weaker than experiencing.”

Gosh it’s good to be back reading Sally Rooney. Needed a break from the mammoth Stephen King creation of IT.

Literally why do the Hanlon’s still live in Derry, after the events of IT: Welcome to Derry please get out

TELLA IS MEANT TO BE SIXTEEN???

I feel like Legend will be Dante or Dante will die? Trying to think of where his character arc is going

Maybe the real Legend is the friends we made along the way, because at this point I wouldn’t be surprised at anyone they claim is the true Legend

Now an entire chapter dedicated to Bill’s bike, then a separate chapter dedicated to him biking from point A to point B seems excessive

When he gifts you gloves with built-in blades 🥰

I’m kind of obsessed with Dante and Tella, she’s secretly down bad for him.

Side note “Jacks took Tella’s chin in his fingers, cole, even through the gloves” so Jacks is Prince of Hearts who supposedly has a frozen heart?

Very exposition heavy so far, a lot of telling and not much showing. But at least we’ve got the love interest on the way being the Prince of Hearts I assume

Gosh ok I realise why this book is so massively long, because it’s going to have every Loser’s perspective for long parts which like is good to give depth to each of the main cast but there’s just so many of them

I knew Bev’s husband was obviously an asshole and a terrible person, from the movie, but reading from his perspective is scary

“The rebellious way her breasts rose and fell” ahh there we have it, a male author writing a bizarre description of a woman

I have put off reading this book for years because it’s length is so intimidating. But alas we persevere

“He wore a tuxedo exactly the way he wore a suit.” What does that even mean? He wore clothes like… clothes?

“Like the current billion-dollar question: If Drake had shot at me, and Libby hadn’t let him onto the estate - who had?”
The real question is who cares anymore?

If someone makes some ominous reference to Emily one more time without actual detail about what happened I’m going to scream

Called it from a mile away that the grandfather chose the middle names.

Also the US college system is so deeply confusing to me. What do you mean she is in high school but talking about high school college credit to finisher her degree a year early???

“Everyone is going to want something from you soon, Heiress… That’s the thing, Mystery Girl.”
Are any of these boys capable of addressing Avery by her name?

I’d never shut up if this happened to me

More thoughts:
- Are there dead bodies or something in the backyard? is that why Enzo is always there and why he’s so scared of Nina
- I still feel like Andrew is in on this to an extent. That or he’s just a shitty guy who never cared about his wife and child
- Is this some sick way they keep their marriage exciting? Or still to try and get another child through Millie?

“Do you need help packing” is CRAZY.
Don’t get me wrong, Nina is so incredibly awful but that was pretty fucked to throw her out in the storm

Ugh my wife has such jealousy issues - proceeds to cheat on her…