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every time i read a rachel lynn solomon YA novel im just kinda coasting along until my teeth are absolutely kicked in by some minuscule and irrelevant detail that is somehow so specific and relatable to me. in this instance it’s that the protagonist’s daily cafe order is an everything bagel with honey-almond cream cheese. rachel lynn solomon r u in my brain what the heck

“Mom leans in to kiss Bubbe’s face, and Bubbe puts her hand against Mom’s cheek and says, 'Shayna maideleh, shayna maideleh.' I’ve never heard her say it to my mother. I thought it was something only said to children, but when I look at my mother’s face, I see she is a child, her eyes big and broken.”

🚨🚨🚨 insane conflicts of interest ABOUND!!! 🚨🚨🚨

flirting via work email addresses is genuinely crazy work

rereading little women…i bet i shocked u all….

“But as he approached fifty he’d become increasingly suspicious of anything that smacked of whimsy or uncomplicated glee. More and more he seemed like the kind of serious person who speaks seriously about the importance of being serious.”

crying a whole lot

“There are certain qualities of light that blur the years. Sometimes when Kirsten and August were on watch together at dawn, she would glance at him as the sun rose and for a fleeting instant she could see what he’d looked like as a boy.”

“He once called her his basil plant; and when she asked for an explanation, said that basil was a plant which had flourished wonderfully on a murdered man’s brains.”

“I don’t think either of us could spare the other, or like any one better, however much we might admire them. It would make too great a difference to us—like seeing all the old places altered, and changing the name for everything.”

“I never had a preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman’s living.”

“It could not be fairly called wooing a woman to tell her that he would never woo her. It must be admitted to be a ghostly kind of wooing.”

not to sound like a broken record but this is making me want to reread gideon the ninth

ok i see u when harry met sally….. 👀

“What led her particularly to desire horse-exercise was a visit from Captain Lydgate, the baronet’s third son, who, I am sorry to say, was detested by our Tertius of that name as a vapid fop ‘parting his hair from brow to nape in a despicable fashion’ (not followed by Tertius himself)”

“It had seemed to him as if they were like two creatures slowly turning to marble in each other’s presence, while their hearts were conscious and their eyes were yearning.”

“As a child she had leaned that white was all the colors wrapped in one, and she found this profoundly unfair; that one could have seen rainbows everywhere but instead, with weak mortal eyes, saw only plain light.”

call me delusional but i hope the grandmas were in love

“In three minutes the Vicar was on horseback again, having gone magnanimously through a duty much harder than the renunciation of whist, or even the writing of penitential meditations.”

“I never did like him, and James never did. The corners of his mouth were dreadfully spiteful.”