neekubee’s Reviews > The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue > Status Update

one chapter at a time, trying to bring back my reading streak (slowly)

"Because happiness is brief, and history is lasting, and in the end,” he says, “everyone wants to be remembered"

Part 5 Chapter XI-XII — The only way Addie knows how to keep going is to keep going forward

part 5 chapter VIII-X — When the impossible is so obvious. Your mind can’t make sense of it, so you try again and again and again, convinced that this time, it will be different.
This, she knows, is how you go mad.

part 5 chapter II-VII — As she is plunged into absolute darkness.
It is not as still as death, not as empty, or calm. There is a violence to this blind black void. It is birds’ wings beating against her skin. It is the rush of the wind in her hair. It is a thousand whispering voices. It is fear, and falling, and it is a feral, wild feeling, and by the time she thinks to scream, the darkness has peeled away again, ...

Part 4 chapter XVII-XIX, Part 5 chapter I — You can't make people love you, [Hen]. If it's not a choice, it isn't real

part IV chapter XI-XVI — that he'd blinked and somehow years had gone by, and everyone else had carved their trenches, paved their paths, and he was still standing in a field, uncertain where to dig

Part 4 Chapter X — Henry knows he could take the train, it's certainly cheaper, but the truth is, he likes driving. Or rather, he likes the white noise that comes with driving, the steady concreteness of going from here to there, the directions, the control. Most of all, he likes the inability to do anything else but drive, hands on the wheel, eyes on the road, music blaring through the speakers

Part 4 Chapter VIII-IX — Art is about ideas. And ideas are wilder than memories. They're like weeds, always finding their way up.

Part 4 Chapter VI-VII — He doesn't want to do this anymore, doesn't even want to be there, in an apartment that somehow feels both empty and cluttered. There's too much space to think. There's not enough to breathe.