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"You were wronged," Emil said. "Your heart's been broken, and that just has to hurt until it doesn't."
"I'll get over it."
"No, you won't. But you'll get next to it and learn how to take it along."
🥺🥺💔💔 love me some good, healthy father-child relationship 😭
— Nov 10, 2026 08:54AM
"I'll get over it."
"No, you won't. But you'll get next to it and learn how to take it along."
🥺🥺💔💔 love me some good, healthy father-child relationship 😭
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Time for another dose of Suanne's wonderful prose and storytelling. The only author I trust to wreck me and put me back together 🥹🫶
— Nov 09, 2026 12:39PM
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Ooo the pain!
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Emil was always just kind of...”there” to me. A beloved secondary character. It wasn’t until Darren Eliker narrated the audiobook that I truly fell in love with Emil. And this scene between him and Kennet on the porch is a prime example. When Kennet says “I’m sorry” and Emil answers “What about?” Those two words made my eyes well up, they’re filled with so much love and support. And when he goes on to say “Here or there, married or not, alive or dead...that would’ve been my first grandchild,” I was a wreck. WHO WROTE THIS?? OH WAIT, I DID!!!Darren has a way of finding things in my writing that I didn’t even know were there. Unpeeling the layers within the secondary and tertiary characters and making them the stars of the show. In his hands, no character is a throwaway. Everyone has a life story and a job to do.
Rachael wrote: "Ooo the pain!"The pain is in small doses so far but I can feel the actual wave coming 😭
Suanne wrote: "Emil was always just kind of...”there” to me. A beloved secondary character. It wasn’t until Darren Eliker narrated the audiobook that I truly fell in love with Emil. And this scene between him and..."Why am I surprised not at all about you hyping up your narrator, I love it! I've already bought the audio of Voyages for an eventual reread, but I guess I'm not stopping there... I genuinely want to hear this scene now 😭 And the flashback scene before to THAT boat night!! God that was heart-wrenching...
Though to be fair, I already loved Emil because I always get absurdly attached to fictional good father figures ❤️ Not just him when it comes to the side characters, though... Major, Minor, Nalle... I swear if anything happens to them, I'll eternally haunt your DMs 😭
"In his hands, no character is a throwaway." Shows he truly understands your stories and LOVES them 🥺