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“You’d tell me, yeah?” I stare over at him. “If something was—like—” I pause, don’t even really know how to say what I’m trying to say. Mash my lips together. “If she was—in . . . danger—? You’d tell me, yeah?” Jonah frowns and blinks twice.

The fact that we know something bad is either happening or about to happen but we won’t know until Jessa writes her 6th book… 😭

“Allie cracks a laugh and a couple tears roll down her face, and she doesn’t wipe them away with any great urgency. They sit on her face, catching in the light of the sun, plain as day for everyone to see that she’s feeling anything other than wonderful, that her life experience is something other than idyllic, and I wonder what that must be like?” ……………

“It’s entirely expected that over the course of our lives humans will—inevitably—disappoint us or hurt us or be less than we hoped them to be. But how much, I suppose is the question. When does a normal amount of to-be-expected human error cross over the line and become an unacceptable amount? How many affairs? How many missed birthdays and ballet concerts and family dinners constitute as too much?”” 💔