Danielle Iadevaio’s Reviews > Slanting Towards the Sea > Status Update

oh the forbidden touches IM SQUEALING

i don’t even know who / what i am rooting for at this point my emotions are in a million different places

are we trying to form a polycule

i went into this book blind and it simply feels soooo refreshing and not what i expected at all

“If there is certainty that I will invest in this and end up disillusioned and scarred, would the journey still not be worth it?”

i genuinely get her

the vibesssss between these three r sooooooo strange

“It’s not that he’s mad at me, I can feel as much. It’s that I’ve mirrored back a version of him he doesn’t want to see. To accept that you were wrong about something isn’t only to accept the mistake itself. It’s accepting each time you acted on that false belief.”

this author genuinely has me in love w her v clear emotional intelligence

“I mull over what Marina said, and the decisions I made…Decisions I felt forced, even coerced into for the greater good. For the first time, they reveal themselves to me for what they were. Choices. My choices. Because even conceding to someone else’s wishes, giving in to meet someone else’s needs—even sacrificing yourself—is a choice.”

“But when all the other arguments fall silent, there is this: an amorphous feeling of doom for tethering myself even more tightly to a life I don’t want. A life where I have no say. A position in which I am the executor of someone else’s dreams. The ultimate concession. There’s so little of me left. If I stretch myself any thinner, I will disappear.”

perf summary of being a people pleaser