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Izzy Parker is on page 387 of 400

‘They think about it, sometimes. Once, even, at the same time, when a song they'd liked plays over the credits of a film they both see, and it leaves them warm, and half-sad, and reflective.
But they are themselves. Full of spaces that don't need to be filled, imprints in the mattress and the carpets of the houses they no longer live in, getting on in ways they had wanted.’

This book is so bloody beautiful

— Aug 23, 2024 10:15AM

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Izzy Parker is on page 289 of 400

‘He knows he should buy them more drinks, but he also doesn't want to stand and break this thing they re cradling; this fragile, near dying thing they ve passed between them for five whole years.’ This was meant to be a flimsy little summer interim book but it’s actually breaking me oh my Lord

— Aug 21, 2024 03:53PM

Izzy Parker is on page 170 of 400

‘He wonders, vaguely, if he'll regret it, but turns to see Rosie at the table with her rained-on hair and her swollen eyes and knows he would swap her for Thailand tomorrow, and the next day, and he can make a decent pad thai, anyway, and the world isn't going anywhere’

— Aug 20, 2024 03:13PM

Izzy Parker is on page 13 of 400

Slay queen - ‘Seventeen is just the start. She will work hard, she will do all that she is supposed to do, and her life will be good and right and whole, filled with music and poetry and wine and sex, and life-altering moments that last longer than three minutes, and don't leave her with bruises down her back.
That is her plan.’

— Aug 19, 2024 03:12AM