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“the scalloped clouds flushed with a deep orange that made it look like magma”

“I’m just waiting for you to give this up,” she said.

30 mins 🫩

8 mins

“I remember these things clearly because that was how my mother loved you, not through white lies and constant verbal affirmation, but in subtle observations of what brought you joy, pocketed away to make you feel comforted and cared for without even realizing it.“

“I am in love with her blood, with her smell, with intangible things that I will never hold – her laugh, her anger, her soul.
She kisses me, and she has a thousand reasons to be upset with me, but tonight she is not upset. She just keeps saying,
‘I love you, I love you, I love you, in this life and the next and the last.”
💥💥💥

23 mins

“I tell myself I am doing this for other people, I let myself believe it.”

31 mins but im not really keeping count

“I like the person that I actually am now, because Susannah likes her. I think soon I will like myself all the way through, and I won’t mind what people think of me.”

29 mins?
and the crowd (me) goes wild

32 mins btw

“I am overcome with a sense of absolute hopelessness.” ☹️

23 minutes

“It means the world to me to be so near to her, and so I don’t let myself be near to her, because I don’t think it means the same thing to her. It is a terrible dynamic, but I don’t know what to replace it with.” 😛

14 minutes

“When she doesn’t like me, she makes it clear. I like that. Why can’t everybody be that way?”

“It is selfish, but I don’t want him spending his thoughts on anybody else. Maybe that’s love. I don’t know. It’s best not to think about it.”

53 more minutes 😛😛

one hour 26 minutes later and I got spoiled by the movie 😔

53 minutes and im trying to finish this before Friday mind you

chapter 3, 14 minutes

“Really, I don’t even need to be happy, I just need to be the same as everybody else.” 😛😛😛

chapter 2, 9 minutes
lots of bangers here

“Her affection will wane, and so I must absorb all the love she gives me while she is giving it.”

“The long light of March is so welcome, I must clean myself in it, I must move on from this.”

“We are adults and children at once.”

chapter 1, 8 mins, im so excited

“I only put up with Patricia because she understands a part of Susannah that I do not. I want Susannah to feel understood.”

read chapter 5 too, add another 13 mins

since its midnight on a sunday i’ll add
“Sundays could feel very threadbare, and raw. ”

but there’s never a lack of quotes from this book. claire keegan i love your prose

read chapter 4, 5 mins

“Where does thinking get us?’ she said. ‘All thinking does is bring you down.”

31 minutes

part 3 for class

“Perhaps this was supposed to be what beauty looked like, Amelia thought. To care so deeply about something, it brought life in you.”

39 minutes, needed to read until the end of part 2 for class

16 mins

we’ll see if i finish this on the bus tomorrow or read one of my other 20 million books 😋

6 more minutes!

“She brushes a dark curl behind her ear and shrugs. “You wanted it, Poppy. You didn’t have it, and you wanted it. You were hungry”

10 minutes