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Half the time, I lived as a pie shop owner in a small Rhode Island town. And the other half? I was Whitney West.
“Give me what is rightfully mine.”
“You can’t hide from me, naughty pet.”
“‘Til death do us part.”
“Miles Zhou
“Cool, right? Who wouldn’t want to drink something that looks like cotton candy and unicorns? Plus, it has dragon fruit in it, which is awesome. Dragons are dope.”
How does it feel to know that talent is literally leaking from your fingertips? Your hands are like a garden hose of good ideas and your brain is the spigot.”
“Are those yellow rubber duckies on your swim trunks?”
Happiness isn’t a zero-sum game. When you spread it around, everyone wins.
Courtney Tonks liked this
The tattooed skins of lumber sacrificed to the gods of literature?
he constantly behaved like an animated squirrel who had just guzzled a discarded soda.
cock consultant.”
If your courage is overdrawn, I’m here to give you a loan.
“Butterflies are brave. It takes courage to work on yourself. It’s a painful, ugly process to grow into who you’re supposed to be. It takes strength to break a shell and become yourself.”
“You have the courage of butterflies, Brave One.”
Houston, we have a problem. Wander and Willow were right. I was the unsuspecting heroine who fell victim to the “just one bed” trope. And now I was waking up with the book boyfriend snuggling me like I was his.
“Why would Norma Jeane become Marilyn if Marilyn wasn’t better?” His eyes crinkled at the corners as he squeezed my arms again. “Maybe you should be asking what Marilyn would have given to go back to being Norma Jeane.”
tattooed marshmallow
“Books take people out of their everyday lives. They give them a moment to say, “wow.” It makes grown-ups believe in magic again. It makes us believe in possibilities. It makes us hold on to the belief that, at any moment, we could meet someone who changes our life and existence completely. It makes us see the best in our enemies. It makes us hold our friends closer. It gives us compassion and empathy. But most of all, it gives us hope that no matter what, everything is going to be okay.”
“Because you showed up today, and that’s the pie. Everything else is just the ice cream on the side.”
commercial bodice-ripper trash.”
Keller’s asses.”
Annie was this sweet, caring woman who liked to bake because it brought people together. She was warm and welcoming. Whitney was a powerhouse. She was a confident force of nature who could part oceans with a single glance.
commas and dangling participles
“I guess I used to think that happiness meant having everything all at once. And now I’m realizing that maybe happiness isn’t the endgame. It’s finding it in each chapter.”
“There’s a difference between invisible and insignificant. And you, Annie Smith, are neither. You’re not just Annie. You’re not just anything. You’re not a mirror, reflecting what’s around you. You’re not a window—an empty necessity. You’re stained glass—broken and shattered but beautiful and whole. Divinely complex.”
Quilliam Shakespeare.”
