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“I wanted you, too. For so long. It was terrible. Sometimes I could barely eat—sorry, I know that sounds like the strangest thing. But for days I didn’t feel hungry at all. I was…occupied. You took away all the other wanting from me.”

Giggling and kicking my feet are you kidding

“There she was again: yearning miserably as if she were in some sort of Romance novel, with a capital R.”

“Effy stared and stared at the line ‘a woman’s mind is too frivolous.’ It stung her like a snakebite, a sudden whiplash of pain.”

“Her fear had transfigured the entire world. Looking at anything was like trying to glimpse a reflection in a broken mirror, all of it warped and shattered and strange.”

“She had the sudden and familiar sensation that she was underwater, the tide rolling ceaselessly over her.”

I love the imagery in this book

When did this turn into a thriller, I’m scared 😭

“I wanted you for so long. Sometimes I could barely eat. For days I didn’t feel hungry at all… I was occupied. You took away all the other wanting from me.” Preston Héloury the man you are

“Love is a fire that cannot burn alone” obsessed