If the Shoe Fits (Meant to Be, #1)
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Read between January 16 - January 31, 2025
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The truth, though, is that clothing is fashion and fashion should be for everyone because clothing should be for everyone.
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clothing for everyone is a first, small step to equality for everyone.
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I shouldn’t have to be resourceful and that it’s my body, so of course it suits me.
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“Forget her. She has the temperament of a thirteen-year-old.”
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for the first time in a very long time, I’m sitting down to sketch. Not because I have to, but because I want to.
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Be the Cindy I know, and stop doing this halfway. Be a showstopper.
Carina
SIERRA ILY
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I nearly hold my breath, but you wanna know what? Screw it. If I have to literally stop breathing to get into this Dolce & Gabbana dress, then D&G doesn’t have the good fortune of gracing my body. I have no intention of suffocating all night.
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This fat girl looks like a damn princess.
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He quickly pops down to one knee as he guides my foot back into the shoe, his fingers wrapped around my ankle as I balance myself on his shoulder.
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Just behind her is Beck, outside with her inhaler in her mouth and the crew fuming beside her.
Carina
HELP LMAO
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“I want to make so many promises to you right now. Almost as badly as the things I want to do to you.”
Carina
kicking my feet
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with all the teenage lifeguards who I thought were so hot
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sometimes it feels like the only way to succeed is to know someone.”
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they had to show the world that they were so in love and couldn’t even stand sitting that far from each other…but
Carina
not me tho. I need to see your beautiful face
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“I was lying about cheating off you,” he says. “I just wanted to be close enough to do this.”
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His lips touch mine as the waitress begins to call off bingo numbers, and there aren’t many things I’d choose over dumplings, but this kiss would be it.
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Time. It’s the one thing he and I can’t seem to get enough of.
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His fingers dug into my waist, and he sank even closer to me somehow, my back pressed flat against the wall.
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Our mouths hovered, breath hot, as Henry’s hands drifted upward, grazing the band of my lace bralette.
Carina
SBQIJABSBSQO
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All I want is time with him. Just a little more time.
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Addison is frowning right at me.
Carina
HA.
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tamales, flautas, gorditas, street tacos, every veggie you can imagine from fresh pico to grilled cactus, and rows of fresh fruit carved in the shape of flowers.
Carina
mmm yes my people's food!!!
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“I like who I like, and just FYI, if you weren’t totally in love with Henry, you’d totally be my type.”
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In many ways, college felt like an extension of high school, but that’s gone now, and I’m not a child anymore.
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Sometimes I can’t fall asleep at night, because I’m scared that when I wake up some detail or memory will be fuzzier than it was the day before and eventually I’ll forget them.
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Though, on my twenty-first birthday, I ate twenty-one moonshine cherries.”
Carina
brave soldier
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“It’s…hard for me to believe that something is orchestrating all of these specific moments so that our lives end up just as they were always meant to. I can’t help but think that if the universe is playing by the rules of fate, my parents died for a reason.
Carina
mhm
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suddenly I’m wishing for the very large, very luxurious towels at our New York hotel.
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He devours me with a kiss as he slides one hand down the length of my hip and pulls my thigh up, hooking it around his.
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“This is not The Fast and the Furious. You are not Vin Diesel.”
Carina
HAHA
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“No room on my door for you,”
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it’s just the two of us floating on the Titanic door. Because there was definitely room for two.
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And maybe—just maybe—fate isn’t a total crock. Maybe the fairy tales aren’t all wrong.
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America might love me, but Henry does not.
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The hardest part about Dad dying was not being able to say goodbye. The last time I saw him was just like any other time.
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“His pulse is nonexistent. The doctor is pronouncing the time of death as now o’clock. They’re calling the morgue. He’s dead.”
Carina
I love anna lmaaao
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All the things you forget exist even after a person dies.
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I’d choose you every time.
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My greatest hope for you, my love, is that you choose yourself as well. Choose what makes you happy. Things, places, people. Only choose the ones that bring that delight to you.
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Just someone so that the burden of this decision isn’t entirely my own.
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“I love you, Cin-Cin.” “I love you, Gus-Gus.”
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“Tell the pilot to do a good job,”
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The best part about crossing any bridge is the chance to look back and be able to fully understand where you came from.
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life feeds into art and art feeds into life.”
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“I’m honored to witness your pain.”
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I did not need to add climbing four flights of stairs in the tallest heels I own to my growing list of struggles today.
Carina
me at school LOL
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“Ugh, what a leech.”
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“There will be other tongues in the sea.”
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I chose to be here. I chose myself.
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I’m fighting a hell of a lot harder than Cindy ever did, because she was never here for Henry to begin with.
Carina
SHE MAKES ME MAAAD