Status Updates From Heartbreak Symphony

"'We'll have a registration booth set up there too. So bring your friends.'

'Should we tell her you don't have any?' The robot strikes a pose in front of the photo booth. 'Or let it be a surprise?"

I didn't expect Aaron's imaginary robot to be one of my favorite characters. 😭

Aaron's dad with the immaculate play design to get Aaron and Mia alone, despite Miguel trying to play press defense. At this point, Aaron is basically in there, it's just a matter of how he finishes. Although, he clearly has some demons he needs to face first, with him trying to hurt the robot and putting a hole in his wall.

It's messed up what happened to Mr V. While there is something to be said about the importance of border control, I think there is a much better way to go about it. We shouldn't have people whose visa expired only two days ago being deported immediately.

Really enjoying it right now. The quest to find La Moquina has intrigued me and I'm rooting for Aaron to get with Mia.

“Being alive is like watching the sun filter through rose-colored glass and sometimes it’s like clutching a piece of that broken glass in your palm. There is unbelievable joy and unspeakable pain and the key to being human is learning how to hold them both.”

the prose in this book flows like a song

“I remember the world is made of thorns and that we don’t get to choose how many times we get stuck. What matters is having people around to help us dig them out, to dig us out when we’re too deep in whatever it is we’re struggling with.”

I really like this quote

“Maybe that’s what makes our dreams so defiant; what makes the people who dream them so strong. That we carry them without knowing if we’ll ever find soil safe enough for them to bloom. That we tend to them even though someone else might come along and yank them up by the roots. We do it anyway. We dream and we hope and we fight.”

wow, I literally have no words. amazing insight

“You can’t just take the sun away and expect everything else to go on living.”

I already know this book is going to make me feel some very deep things