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We’re engaged in one of our childish games, which requires no words. Like everything we do, it’s dreadfully immature.
Consider this your warning.
I think I’m getting a migraine. I can’t look at this screen any longer.” She’s one of those horrific people who pronounces it me-graine.
I have never in my life heard anyone pronounce it me-graine. This was my first clue that the author isn't American.
“It’ll be hard to invent something the Japanese haven’t thought of.”
If they didn't invent it, they probably improved it. Just saying.
Control, A; Delete.
Does a capital A represent alt? Cuz, no.
I cross my eyes at him, poke my tongue out, and say, “Derrrr.”
I'm sorry, are they middle-schoolers?
I’ve acted like a total nut tonight.
By this point, it's seems like her default and "tonight" isn't really a surprise. Sigh.
I tighten my legs around him, and he slides a hand to my butt and squeezes it once in a friendly way.
In what instance is a butt squeeze "friendly"?!
I need to start behaving normally.
Seriously, she does not act like a grown adult.
Oh, jeepers.
On the other end of the spectrum, what person under 80 says jeepers?
“Yowza.
Again... Who talks like this?
It’s Joshua on time delay.
I forget the context, but remember that time delay is not the accurate term here.
I take the deepest breath my lungs can manage, and walk through into an entire room half filled with Templemans.
Inaccurate. Are there no family from his mother's side? No friends or colleagues? Just annoyed me.
“Lucy, this is my aunt Yvonne, my mother’s sister. Yvonne, Lucy Hutton.”
Ah ha! NOT a Templeman!
“So, Lucy, how did you meet Josh?” “We met at work,” Josh supplied the first time when the silence stretched too thin, so it becomes my default answer.
It doesn't even make sense that this was a difficult question. The "default answer" is the truth. What was she thinking of saying otherwise? Just really irked me.
“Lucy, tell everyone how you met Josh.” Inwardly I shriek. I’ve answered this same question at least eight times today, and it never gets any easier. “Well. Well, uh …” Oh crap, I’m sounding like a priced-by-the-hour escort who hasn’t thought of a good enough lie. What did we agree again? I’m Shortcake? I can’t tell them that. If I ever was going to humiliate Josh, now would be the time. I can almost imagine saying it. He forced me to come.
They asked how you met, now how you got together. Why is this so difficult?! I'm sorry, but it doesn't even make sense.
Where’s all your new friends?”
Grammar
a few minutes of dreamy, melting minutes
Grammar
I put my hands on his neck, squeeze briefly in a strangle, then slide them down.
?! What on earth?!
And I don’t know if I’m lame for wanting to make her happy, and I don’t know if I’ll ever see her again after today.
Is this even a sentence? The two ands imply that there's a "but..." missing. This is so incoherent.
Brute, raw masculinity contrasted with gentleness is the most attractive thing on earth.
Truth! OMG big, burly men being gentle and caring... 😵
“I need a fake wedding band on you if we ever came back,”
Grammar!!!
I’ll always remember the drive home as a movie montage, and I knew I was in one. Each detail was vividly bright. I knew I’d need the memories one day. This montage is directed by someone French. A convertible would have been their preference, but the windows are down, so that’s something. The air is unseasonably warm and scented like honeysuckle and cut grass. The montage stars this pretty girl, Flamethrower-red mouth smiling over at a beautiful man. He’s looking so achingly cool in his sunglasses you immediately buy a pair for yourself. He lifts her hand to his mouth and kisses it. Tells her
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The best writing in the entire book, right here. This was truly lovely.
the field of four-leaf clovers we pass.
Really? An entire field of FOUR-LEAF clovers? And you could tell from the car you were riding in? Amazing! Why didn't you stop and pull up the entire field? You'd have good luck forever. Sorry, it was just a ridiculous reaction to a ridiculous phrase.
love-hearts.
Another thing we don't really say in America.
I love him so much it’s like a thread piercing me. Punching holes.
That's some incredible thread... Ok ok, sorry. But by this point, I was pretty ready for this book to be over.
The entire moment is frozen, date stamped and slotted into my memory vault.
Another good line. See it's not all critique.
It slides down my cheek, down my neck.
Ok but... She's lying down. That's not how gravity works.
“Since the moment I saw you. Since the moment you smiled at me, I felt like I was falling backward off a cliff. The feeling has never stopped. I’ve been trying to drag you down with me.
My heart! Ok this might be tied for the best part of the book.
hire cars.
Just another term we don't use in the US.
