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“This is something you carry on the inside, in a cavity filled with every true thing about you so that there is nothing true left on the outside.”

poor faye and her turbulent teenage years

margaret you ain’t shit

henry i just don’t even know what to say about you. Intimacy Issues in the strangest way

“Beyond everything else, she loves this: how swiftly things can strike her- music, people, like- how quickly they can surprise her, all of the sudden like a punch.” me

“He does not know how to love Faye creatively, so he does what everyone else in high school does: candles and chocolates and flowers. He treats love like a balloon, like it’s all a very simple matter of accumulation, just adding more air.” #maythisloveneverfindme

franks backstory is so sad

“I’m actually in Iowa right now, collecting information.”
“Iowa. I have no concept of what that looks like.” bro lmao

i really liked part 1 and it was a very interesting look into sam’s childhood especially the friends he made and their affect on his adolescence. it felt sort of murky with his mothers departure but also all the strange elements of his friendships with bishop and bethany. i hope they are returning characters cause id definitely like to see more of them

#girlwhosebeenreadingthisbookforoveramonthand2vacations