Mariana’s Reviews > Everything was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt > Status Update

The thing is, I do this to myself. I choose to read.

"that’s the world she came from, before it all changed, but no one knows it’s changed, so while everyone else bobs about in their normal world, she’s slipped between."

"In these tiny moments, when the spectacle is stripped away, when there is no reason for the day, what’s left appears to be something true, something fundamental to being a person."

"They will be sad, because sad is what it is, and the sadness comes in many colours – the vibrant shock and disbelief in a few hours when she finds you, then a more muted colour for many years after that, and finally a subtle, more abstract kind of colour until I come and take them too."

Cool, cool, cool.

I love a book that makes me tear up in the 2%.