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“You spend so much of your life adhering to all of these rules and ideas. Keep everything orderly. Keep busy. Look presentable.

When we stopped following these basic tenets, I realized how meaningless they have been.”🥰

Whew!!! Lily (our main character) is desperate, ruthless and naive 🫠

“I looked at him. He was incredibly undeniably gorgeous.

I could see why I’d gravitated towards him in the beginning. I liked beautiful things. But there was a part of me that was ashamed by the shallowness I had shown in betting on him with so little thought.”

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“If she had a personality I wouldn’t have to objectify her.”

This must have been such a fun book to write. I can image the thrill the author had fleshing out each of these many character personas. 😊

“I didn’t hate that I was the second most beautiful. I hated that I had to stand there and be told that everyone else thought so.”

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“Do you think any of the men would be black?

There’s usually one but not always. . . If it’s all white boys I’m screwed. The white boys never go for the black girl.”


GIRL!!! You went there??? I’m eating this book up quickly!!!

OBSESSED!!! 😍 🤣🥰

“While the sheer size of the compound was incredible, it was distinctively rundown. It looked a lot like the home of a billionaire if the billionaire’s staff had gone on strike.”

I LOVE so many things about this book already. This is so NOW!!!

Also I am fascinated by how Rawle describes. Her use of figurative language is neck turning !!!

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