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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

want to read since June 1st 2022

20 minutes for part 1-advent

“I really hope that you don’t plan to just marry some rich man, sweetie. I can’t bear to think—”
“I’m gay,” I remind her.
“Exactly!” she retorts. “It would be especially dishonest.”

I’ll actually read my book club books this month trust

“add sesame oil until it tastes like Mom’s”

“That night at the beach,” Mabel says. “And the days after, until school ended and all through the summer . . .”
“Yeah?”
“I thought I’d never love another person.”
“I thought that, too.”
“I guess we should have known better.”
“I don’t know about that,” I say.”

this is really important to me btw

“She peels an orange, separates it in perfect halves, and gives one of them to me. If I could wear it like a friendship bracelet, I would. Instead I swallow it section by section and tell myself it means even more this way. To chew and to swallow in silence here with her. To taste the same thing in the same moment.”

“I wonder if we will become okay again. I hope for it.”

so close so close 60 pages left

“Florida is smothering me. The thing I love doesn’t love me back.”

met up with my friend who both started and quit her job at a pet store between the last time I’ve seen her and was reminded of this book.

28 mins btw since i still care about numbers

put this on my want to read on jun 17th 2022 and ofc I just had to start actually reading it when I was in the exact same position as marin here
winter break after first semester core

if I don’t read anything good this seems remotely readable

“Strange, to live in such proximity to an ocean that I almost never see.”
27 minutes

actually how it feels to ride a bike hashtag represent

21 BOOKING CONFIRMATIONs

waited 9 years and a white man from nyc did it in one day
WAITED NINE YEARS

“This is soft,” Rozanov murmured.
“It’s cashmere,” Shane said stupidly.”

lowk dragging

just chapter 3 tn, 13 minutes

lots of good thoughts and lines, I can see why this one’s beloved

“to meet a version of the same thing, yet again. Might things never change or develop into something else, or new?”

i just wanted to start it today since it came out four years ago on this day !

“No. What I give, I don’t take back.”

no maybe you should take it back

why does she still feel guilty after four years

44 minutes today