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"I also want to spend the next thirty-seven hours committing the dimples above her exposed knee to memory."

Is this book actually fucking with me? Why couldn't it have been good???

“I go into the empty corner of my room and slide down to the floor, wedging myself as far back as I can so it feels like the walls are holding me. And then I wrap my arms around myself in a hug and pull my knees up to my chest. And just like I did when I was a lonely little boy, I pretend that in a minute someone will come in to turn on the light.”

What. The. Fuck.
My heart. 💔

“You could set a metronome to how I fuck my fist, and Maddie seems to have set her heartbeat to it, judging by the fast heave of her chest”

I wish this book was good ‘cause that slaps.

Elite microtrope: When a man is at home in his kitchen and cooks with a tea towel slung over his shoulder.

I’m so, so bored. How can you call a book Fundamentals of Being a Good Girl but have other plots that take up just as much, if not more, page time? About politics of all things??

“You look amazing.” I speak the words against her neck, hoping I can speak them into her blood, into the air filling her lungs.
“Gorgeous. Dangerous. Clever as a snake and bright as a star. […] You look like the world belongs at your feet.”

“Her eyes are burning into mine, bright green, alive, the same color as the inside of my greenhouse on a hot summer’s day”

This is exactly what I needed so far 😌