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“Love is not the weakness. People get in its way. People are weak and perilous, not love.”

“Why didn’t you call me?’ you say in nearly a whisper.
‘When?’
‘When your mother died.’
‘I don’t know.’
‘I guess you’d met Silas by then.’
‘I met him six months later. I was a wreck. But he understood.’
‘I wish you’d called me.”

Maturing is choosing Silas...

“We’re both flying Delta. We’ll meet at baggage claim. He received the keys to the apartment. He promises he won’t forget them.”

“Gastrell claims that nothing in Greek drama is random and that Greek drama wouldn’t have survived at all without this tragic irony that they invented. Yash insists that the power and poignancy come from the very randomness itself, the sense that any one of us, not just a good king with a built-in flaw, is capable of making a mistake, that we are all vulnerable to tragedy because we are human.”

“It’s fine. He wasn’t my type.’
‘I could have told you that last fall.’
‘I wish you had.”

“Claudette told me to give you a sign.’
‘This is a good sign. I love this sign.’
We get his clothes off, too, and we are still standing, looking at each other and grinning.
The feeling catches me off guard.
Oh.
Love.”

🥹

“So that wasn’t why Sam noticed me?’
‘No, it was a little before that. And I noticed you. First.”

“He looks at me. ‘What’s going on?’
‘I’ve made all the wrong choices.”

Mmm chaotic

I was going to write a remark about how I'm not captivated by this book after a proper page in because I am no longer pretentious old me but...

"“The movie has made these buildings, these quads, these years of our lives seem unbearably naïve.”

Now I'm captivated