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You can’t return to a state of innocence.
Oh my! Don’t you both look lovely. And champagne! Wait! Don’t start without me!”
Isobel sounds shady AF
You’ve got to make them stew, Peaches, you’ve got to make them suffer for their sins.
Woman to woman advice on men lol
Then somehow, miraculously, Isobel’s hand closed around it.
This ring scene made me anxious!
Joseph groaned in such a way that I knew this wasn’t the first time they’d enacted this scene.
Isobel is a flapper!
I knew I was in love with him. Just imagine. As innocent, as uncomplicated as that. I still remember that moment, that sweet, shy revelation, remember it fondly, because it only comes once in your life, and then it’s gone. You can’t have it back. And it’s only a second! Isn’t that capricious?
At this point im in love with Joseph!
One measly instant of clarity, tucked inside the reach of your livelong days. And then the boat touches the shore, and the moment flies, and your life—your real, murky, messy, incalculable life—your life resumes.
“Of course, the Catholic church. I didn’t think.”
I appreciate the presence of church without controversy
“I think he’s in love with her.” The sentence struck in the middle of my chest. I stepped to one side, in order to find Joseph’s sailboat on the stretch of empty sea before us.
Ugh this hurt me! Sorry MIRANDA!Theres something deeper here i can feel it.
“Another man’s ring isn’t going to stop a fellow like that.”
True!
“There’s a lot you don’t realize.”
Forshadowing
“Nobody ever says what they really mean. There is this vast fabric of tender little lies, and all the important things are unspoken. Boiling there underneath. We only bother telling the truth when it’s too small to count.”
They want it to stretch on into infinity, never changing, never deviating one square inch from the old, dull, habitual ways.
I relate to isobe SO MUCH. She's a wonderer
wanderlust
Brigitte’s body had been rendered in a series of blurred triangles, and the only clear detail was the line of numbers tattooed on her wrist, which Mama painted larger than life.
Shes a holocaust survivor!
The two of us, we knew how that void in your heart, that father-shaped hole, might lead you down paths of terrible sorrow, in search of something to fill it.
Carroll and Victor, having once been lovers—but
Hes bisexual?
Can he not, by the divinity of his touch, drive away the Devil from between her legs and turn sin into sacrament?
This line thooo
Isobel might have been in love with Joseph, but she was also addicted to the thrill of disobedience.
Relatable
And I released a lungful of warm, salt air I hadn’t realized I’d been holding,
Why does this sentance exists
You can pull off anything if you just stop trying.”
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry,” he said. “I don’t know what came over me.” “Me either.” “It was the whisky. I’m so sorry. I don’t usually—well, I shouldn’t’ve—aw, damn. Are you all right?”
Scandal!!!Miranda making out with Clay the night she calls off engagement !!!
I should have been a flapper
She actually says it!
Sometimes the words you say lightly are the ones you feel the most. I reached for the ignition.
Men are all alike in their vanity, she realizes as he climbs aboard, bedsprings creaking, absolutely identical in their propensity to carnal weakness.
