annaleenie’s Reviews > Great Big Beautiful Life > Status Update

“I prefer that version of the world,” I say, smiling up at him. His arms ring my waist, his nose scraping along mine.
“You do?”
I nod, the movement gliding our lips briefly across each other.
“It’s yours,” he offers.
I laugh. “Oh? I can have the world?”
“Mine,” he says, “yeah. You can have mine.”

“It made sense: Laura was always more comfortable being face-to-face with pain, more at ease with the bluer shades of life. Whereas Margaret spent every second of every day trying to get back to the golden magic of her childhood, when life was one endless possibility.”

“In my chest, it feels like a latch clicking into place when our eyes meet.”

this chapter!!!! emily henry you visionary!!!!!!

“What’s it like when your father loves your mother madly? When he fills the breakfast room with daises—potted, not cut—on her birthday, and she rolls her eyes but laughs too, because she doesn’t have an ounce of his whimsy, but she understands the hundreds of ways her husband tries, again and again, to say something along the lines of I love you?”

“At my laugh, he reaches out and gently touches my lips, light and fleeting.” 🙂‍↕️

“I think you live in a world that's more interesting than the one most people live in,” he says, and just as my heart starts to sink with disappointment, with a kind of loneliness, he adds, “and I wish I could live in it too.”

I feel myself beaming. “I’ll take you sometime.”

“I’d like that," he says.

“I don’t know if I can handle being the one person on the planet Alice Scott doesn’t like.”

I am eatingggg this up. giddy and giggly

“The heat spreads down my neck. It routes around my rib cage, like it’s reaching toward him, like it’s knitting us together.”

“You might be the least cynical person I’ve ever met. I’m not sure I’ve even known anyone like you.”

I narrow my eyes. “You mean I’m naive.”

“No, Alice,” he replies. “If that’s what I meant, then that’s what I would’ve said.”