Status Updates From Slanting Towards the Sea

“İt sems to me we've always been, and always will be, two islands bathing i the same sea with our backs to each other-him facing the sun, me facing the moon, both of us resenting the light the other got. But one of those lights has gone out already, and now the other one is fading too. I guess where it leaves us, then, is in the dark”

“I retreated from him without asking what he thought or wanted, turned myself into water and slipped through his hands.
But he failed to cup them”

“It wasn't that I didn't have anything to tell her.
It was that I was afraid that if I did speak, she still wouldn't listen.”

“but it was implied she was referring to her saying married to Dad so that Saša and I would have a normal family. A sacrifice I was grateful for because I couldn't imagine being a child from a broken home, not in a time and society that still stigmatized divorce. But now I see the truth neither of us could see back then. Our home wasn't any less broken just because we lived in one household”

“Big fat tears came and went, rolled and rolled, but there was no one to be heartbroken for me. I was that tree, felled inside the forest, that no one had heard fall. That tree that didn't make a sound”

so far so good! i relate a lot to ivona. loving the pace and writing style so far :)

“… he told me that I felt as familiar and essential to him as the sea.” This book is already going to break my heart I know it (I read a few pages on the day I marked this as reading but I’m really going to lock in tonight)