Amanda • ReadingWithMyGolden’s Reviews > Happy Ending > Status Update

“It’s nothing like our first, fearful kiss, and yet I can’t help but think that somehow it’s tethered to it, that this kiss now, like the many ways we’ve loved each other, is inextricable from where we started”

“I’ve waited years to do this, Ted. You think I’m just gonna let you plant one on me after all that?”

“I was always going to be here, waiting for you on the other side of it”

“When ‘I can’ is how you’ve always told yourself you’re fine or you will be, it’s terrifying to face ‘I can’t,’ because then how do you know you’re going to be fine? When it’s never been okay to not be okay, admitting you’re not okay and you can’t make yourself okay, like you always have, is an existential crisis.”

(On starting therapy!)

“In books, hope in the face of uncertainty is safe. In life, it’s not that simple of course. It’s not so easy to hope for a happy ending once life has taught you a good beginning is hardly a guarantee”
The beginning of this book already has me 🥺🥺