Ashley’s Reviews > Totally and Completely Fine > Status Update

“I didn’t have to be perfect to be loved. I could just be myself. And that was totally and completely fine.”

“And I realized that was how time healed. When you filled it with opportunity and people and love.” 🥹

“Love is a shape-shifter. It will look different at 18 than it will at 40 than it will at 80. It will feel different. You don’t fall in love—it isn’t something you trip and tumble over. Love is something you need to hurtle yourself into—something you race toward heart first, even if you don’t know what will happen. Especially if you don’t know what will happen. And it’s hard work.”

“I wanted to wrap my arms around her and tell her that this wouldn’t last. That nothing ever lasted. For good and for bad. I needed to remind myself that.”

“Regrets are tricky. Because once you start picking apart your life like that, wondering what could have been, you start to realize that everything you have now would be different. And I don’t regret where I’ve ended up. If I regret anything with my mom it’s that I didn’t tell her I loved her enough.”

This is so unrelated to book, but every time Lauren mentions Ben’s signet ring, I cringe because we just discussed ring avulsion at work

“I’d even shaved past my knees and made sure to pluck those astonishingly long nipple hairs that always seemed to appear out of nowhere.” 😂😂😂

I’m just really struggling on the connection that Lauren and Spencer ever had, like what drew them together in the first place? Proximity? Attraction? I don’t get it. I like both characters, I just don’t understand really their connection or what brought them together?

“If we were different people, maybe I could say something about our journeys and our place in this world and a greater purpose, but I think you’d think it was just as much bullshit as I do. I don’t know why Spencer is dead and you’re here. There’s no reason to it. No greater purpose, no less to be learned. There’s nothing good about his death. But I am glad that you’re here.” 🤌🏼🤌🏼

I predicted Lena was gay. It’s always frustrating when a book is unexpectedly LGBTQ friendly, not that I’m not, but like what if I wanted to read a relatable romance? This says nothing about the MMC being bi or like a 3rd of the people in this book.