Eli_Reads’s Reviews > The Ripple Effect > Status Update

‘But it’s the small thefts that get past you, not the big ones.’ -Sloan

‘That’s the problem, isn’t it? I never meant to love any of this, and now I’m ride or die for both this man and his incredibly random adult summer camp.’ ~Stellar J Byrd

““Sloane looks better after losing 180 pounds of Dereck,” Mitch sings.” lol

‘He gives everyone these thoughtful gestures. Maybe we all feel like they’re saying, I care for you, body and soul. He’s one to talk about things being meaningful, when I never know whether the touches he gives me mean I’m special.’ I love this description in its heartbreak.

‘He looks different this morning. Familiar in a way that seems … well, the word that comes to mind is “dear.” It’s sweet and old-fashioned, like I’m Anne Shirley standing at the garden gate after three books of insults and rivalry, looking up into Gilbert Blythe’s face, and seeing something that was always there. There in herself, there in him, waiting to be discovered.’ Anne of Green Gables reference

‘I get nervous without hard evidence that people care as much as I do.’ I’ve felt this in my own life.

‘Despite how exhausted they looked, Liz and Tobin seemed somehow forged into a single Borg consciousness by this experience.’

Chapter 24 is another favorite.

Chapter 22 is my favorite chapter because so much happened in it.

“I got good at avoiding people who were only in it for themselves and even better at gently turning away those whose eyes said they wanted my tomorrows.” ~ Stellar Byrd