More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
Life, I’d learned, is a revolving door. Most things that come into it only stay awhile.
Until that moment, I’d carried my life like a handkerchief knapsack at the end of a broom handle, something small and containable I could pick up and move at the drop of a hat. And I never knew what it was I was running from, or to, until he said it.
Home. The word stoked an ember in my chest. Here was the permanence I’d been waiting for. A place that would belong to us.
Just the thought of it now is enough to tip me over the edge.
Lol
when people are always late, I don’t expect them to be reliable,
convince me to go back to school to become a librarian,
You have to go to school for that?
If you don’t give other people responsibility for your feelings, you can have a decent relationship with most of them.”
“Daphne,” he tuts. “Daphne, Daphne, Daphne.”
I like miles hes funny
It’s been so long since I’ve been curled up against anyone.
Heard
“I’ll be better.
?
“Okay, just scream enough at the top of your lungs and I’ll use context clues to figure it out.”
Lol
chortle.
I haTe this word
“Out here, you’re small and there’s no one else around, but you’re not lonely. It’s like you’re connected to everyone and everything.”
longing for the kind of noise, clutter, permanence that comes from having a family,
cleaved
? This means 'to split'
“And you can’t control it, anyway. Feelings are like weather. They just happen, and then they pass.”
the key to being able to talk to anyone might just be curiosity.
Those are the moments that make a life.
Remember who this is for.”
Who is this for
chewed
Hate this phrase
The same universe that dispassionately takes things away can bring you things you weren’t imaginative enough to dream up.
power-nap under the desk,
?
He swallows hard. “Come home. Please.” “I can’t.”
Bruh
You’re wonderful. You’re the reason for the word wonderful. It really shouldn’t be used for anything else.
Aw
So many of the most beautiful things in life are unexpected.
“Funny story…” he says, but he doesn’t go on, just watches me and waits. He knows how much I love to tell it.
