QuietlyKat’s Reviews > Half-Drawn Boy > Status Update

“I stare at the carpet, sure if I stay like this any longer my eyes will drop out of my skull and I’ll have to scoop them up and push them back in. I turn around and walk out into the garden.

“Gregor?” Bruno comes after me.

If he keeps talking about hand jobs and being naked, I think I’m going to have to actually get on my hands and knees and dig myself a hole in the soil big enough to crawl into.”

“As soon as I feel a tiny bit calmer, I pick up my phone and draw not-real me with a sea-filled blue heart inside his chest. I draw not-real me giving that heart—my blue heart—to not-real Noah. I text the picture to him, then I get up and go upstairs, needing to be on my own in case my brain implodes.”

How can I have read this story twice but still be so overflowing with feeling on the reread?! 🥹😭

“I think I may have told you already, but I love how you you are, you know. Makes me feel safe…to be me…”

🥹… 🥹… 😭😭😭😭😭 My heart!

My heart 💗🥹☺️🥰😭

““I don’t really think it’s weird that you’d like to know what it’s like to have a baby,” she says out of nowhere... “…When you told me, I think I just hadn’t thought about it before and my brain’s response to new ideas can sometimes be a bit negative. I can tell you’d be really good with a baby. You look like you are really good. You love people really well.”

🥹🩵😭

“And sometimes you have to do the things the people you love need.

Alexei says that’s part of what love is—recognising what you need and what those you love need and finding all the ways you can help those needs match up.

Alexei also says all the ways they don’t match up is where having boundaries comes in. And boundaries are crucial.”

2/2

“I don’t think he knows how to hug harder. I think he’s afraid of breaking people. People don’t break from hugs, though.

I think they might break without them sometimes. So I can deal with his light hugs if he doesn’t hug me for too long. Toby is the only light hugger who I’ll probably let hug me whenever he asks. I think he needs to give hugs more than I need not to have them.”

1/2

“…maybe the fact that he’s willing to fight for people, even when completely outnumbered and unlikely to win, is perhaps a bigger, far more important thing than just looking like you could win a fight…
…if you’ve got the heart of a bloody lion, it doesn’t matter how strong you look on the outside, you’re going to stand your ground and protect the ones you love whatever comes your way.”

I love this story so much it makes me weak

This is technically the second time I’m reading Half Drawn Boy. The first time was as Suki released chapters on her Patreon.

I love it so much. And this scene at 7% makes me so happy. My heart is peaceful and full.