Daisy Jones & The Six in forever and evermore swifties

May 31, 2024 María Camila rated it it was amazing

Music can dig, you know? It can take a shovel to your chest and just start digging until it hits something.

This is NOT a fictional story; this is real life. If you're looking for clichés and happy endings, let me tell you that this book is not for you. It's not about characters; it's about real people with genuine dreams, striving for fame, a perfect life, happiness... Even though they know they can't have it all, they are willing to risk everything to achieve it.

It is what I have always

Music can dig, you know? It can take a shovel to your chest and just start digging until it hits something.

This is NOT a fictional story; this is real life. If you're looking for clichés and happy endings, let me tell you that this book is not for you. It's not about characters; it's about real people with genuine dreams, striving for fame, a perfect life, happiness... Even though they know they can't have it all, they are willing to risk everything to achieve it.

It is what I have always loved about music. Not the sounds or the crowds or the good times as much as the words - the emotions, and the stories, the truth - that you can let flow right out of your mouth.

This story is about laughter and tears, dreams and aspirations, bold steps and mistakes, communication and misunderstandings, admiration and envy, love and heartbreak. It's messy. It's about understanding that you don't have to be perfect to accomplish great things, but that doesn't mean you don't need to work on yourself and strive to achieve them.

I'm not perfect. I'll never be perfect. I don't expect anything to be perfect. But things don't have to be perfect to be strong.

It's about making mistakes and (un)learning from them, about falling down repeatedly and knowing that some people will always be there for you. And then, there are those who, even though they know you're struggling, do nothing at all.

It’s funny. At first, I think you start getting high to dull your emotions, to escape from them. But after a while you realize that the drugs are what are making your life untenable, they are actually what are heightening every emotion you have. It’s making your heartbreak harder, your good times higher. So coming down really does start to feel like rediscovering sanity. And when you rediscover your sanity, it’s only a matter of time before you start to get an inkling of why you wanted to escape it in the first place.

To be honest, after reading this book, all you can do is cry. Like I said, it's real life—and it hurts.

And, baby, when you think of me
I hope it ruins rock 'n' roll
Regret me.

~🌼~🌼~🌼~🌼~🌼~🌼~🌼~🌼~🌼~

"I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else's muse.
I am not a muse.
I am the somebody.
End of fucking story."

"I used to think soul mates were two of the same. I used to think I was supposed to look for somebody that was like me. I don't believe in soul mates anymore and I'm not looking for anything. But if I did believe in them, I'd believe your soul mate was somebody who had all the things you didn't, that needed all the things you had. Not somebody who's suffering from the same stuff you are."

"I wish someone had told me that love isn’t torture. Because I thought love was this thing that was supposed to tear you in two and leave you heartbroken and make your heart race in the worst way. I thought love was bombs and tears and blood. I did not know that it was supposed to make you lighter, not heavier. I didn’t know it was supposed to take only the kind of work that makes you softer. I thought love was war. I didn’t know it was supposed to… I didn’t know it was supposed to be peace."

"When people asked me for my autograph, I used to write, "Stay Solid, Daisy J." But when it was a young girl - which wasn't often but it did happen from time to time - I used to write, "Dream big, little bird. Love, Daisy".

"All I will say is that you show up for your friends on their hardest days. And you hold their hand through the roughest parts. Life is about who is holding your hand and, I think, whose hand you commit to holding."

"I am not going to sit around sweating my ass off just so men can feel more comfortable. It’s not my responsibility to not turn them on. It’s their responsibility to not be an asshole."

"You have to have one person in your life that you know would never do anything to steer you wrong. They may disagree with you. They could even break your heart, from time to time. But you have to have one person, at least, who you know will always tell you the truth."

"But loving somebody isn't perfection and good times and laughing and making love. Love is forgiveness and patience and faith and every once in a while, it's a gut punch. That's why it's a dangerous thing, when you go loving the wrong person. When you love somebody who doesn't deserve it. You have to be with someone that deserves your faith and you have to be deserving of someone else's. It's sacred."

"Appreciation from people you admire changes how you see yourself."

"Which is what we all want from art, isn't it? When someone pins down something that feels like it lives inside us? Takes a piece of your heart out and shows it to you? It's like they are introducing you to a part of yourself." ...more

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Jan 03, 2022 mary ♡ (she | they) rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobooks

4.5**

taylor jenkins reid is so good at breaking my heart 🥲

this book flew by so fast because i was fully entranced by the lives of the characters and the incredible dialogue tjr wrote for them.

+OMG i can’t wait to see the show adaptation! this story was made for the screen and i think the confusing aspects of the structure of this book will make a lot more sense when added with visual representations. (as for which way to read it, i highly recommend listening to the audiobook!! there’s a full ca ...more

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Jun 16, 2022 Chloé (Harry’s version) rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favourites

I’m not being dramatic when I say this book changed my life.

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Nov 21, 2022 kiko ★ rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: got-me-out-of-a-reading-slump, i-secretly-like-contemporaries, november-2022

well, that was depressing

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Dec 13, 2022 ✰⋆·˚ ༘ lilly⋆˚ ༘ ✰ rated it really liked it

this is too much for me. what. how is this not real. iconic. legendary. depressing. brain rotting. it’s so insanely sad and cool and real and vulnerable.

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Aug 09, 2022 diana im rated it really liked it

Shelves: august-2022

4.5

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Mar 23, 2023 lour rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: z, own, favorites, historical-fiction

this book broke my heart so many times i-

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Jan 14, 2023 Serena Ruth rated it really liked it

Shelves: books-i-own

Overall, I really enjoyed this book. I thought the format was creative and enticing in the same way Reid’s other novels have been. I loved seeing the way the universe of historical figures are entwined, with the slight nod to Mick Riva.

I felt like this book did a fantastic job at depicting the different types of relationships people can have with substances and addiction, the similarities between love and addiction, and overall that feeling that maybe you can stay clean or resist for a while but ...more

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