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Goodbye to the dog-eared romance novels boasting the faded flowing locks of Fabio. Goodbye to the poorly aged self-help guides full of body-shaming advice. Goodbye to cookbooks that were way more obsessed with aspic and gelatins than the modern-day digestive system could handle.
You think there’s romance in poverty, but that’s only because you’ve never lived it.
“It’s not that kind of library emergency,” he said, the chuckle so ingrained in his voice that I suspected he always carried it.
If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them,’” he said as if reciting a quote. It only took me a second to realize that a quote was exactly right. “‘The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.’”
If you’ve ever wondered why I sometimes find it hard to say the words out loud, it’s this right here: fury and despair, both of them binding me tight. I wish I could offer you a whole heart, but I can’t. Not while those two things still exist within me.
He’d forgotten how it felt. To hold a book in your hands and know that everything would turn out okay in the end, to lose yourself in someone else’s story… That was a joy he hadn’t allowed himself to indulge in for a very long time.
“Jasper, I was always going to leave,” she interrupted, her voice slicing right through him. “You know that as well as I do. The only difference now is that I get to take a part of you with me when I go.”
“Todd’s okay, but my mom tries too hard. And then she doesn’t try enough.” I pause. “Does that make sense?”
don’t remember meeting my own dad, even though he technically belongs to both me and Theo. Trixie has a different dad, and so does Chloe, but none of us really care. When all you have for a father is a blank space, it’s easy to pretend he’s the same blank space for everyone. “What’s he like?”
“Everyone’s heart breaks at least once in a lifetime,” she said, determined, as ever, to go her own way. “It’s as inevitable as falling in love. The real challenge is deciding what you plan to do about it.”
