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this book has made me feel nothing but pain so far

“He’s so miserable, Rosie goes on. He’s always tired and bored and uninterested in me.
That’s marriage, her mother says, and it takes Rosie a second to realize that she’s not even joking.”
this is a fear of mine

“When her phone buzzes and she sees Will’s name, she does not open the message right away. It has been so long since she saw it, like that, on her screen.”

this is stressing me out

“It felt dangerous, and this, she thinks, is the opposite. She feels steadied in Simon’s arms. Propped up. With Will, she never knew where she was, how he might make her feel.”

didn’t think the pushing down and praying would get this far, this is terrifying

WEDDING? this is ridiculous

“He listens to her breathing and thinks of her awake and looping, obsessive and hurting and trying to cope, and the love he feels is bigger than anything he’s felt before, bigger than his anger and his pain, his desire and his fury, and this, to him, is entirely new, and the right thing, he knows, is to keep it to himself.”