Status Updates From Thirst for Salt

Slowly starting to see patterns of Jude mentioning his age more and more & also something about him just seems sketchy … he seems reserved and scared (?) of fully committing 100% …

This book is giving me nostalgia. Literally my life in my early 20’s and late teens.

#crying

“From the beginning, I wanted us to be equals, I wanted to know all the things he knew-an impossible wish, but a true one.”

“Always the beggar for his love. I was like the desperate ocean, wearing away at him.”

“But then I remembered all those
years between us, a gap wide enough to fall into. Eighteen years —a whole adolescence, a coming of age.”

loving this! quotes:

He looked at me the way he had in the deep—as if he could see through to the core of me, burning away all that was not essential… No man had ever looked at me that way before.

Creases around his eyes when he smiled, like someone who might laugh often and easily.

I learned to swim here when I was young…
Compared to some of us, you're
still young, he said. A joke, lightness in his voice.

finally starting this!!!!!

“How could I not be hung up on the past, I wanted to say to my mother, when so many things I'd loved had been left behind
there?”

So far it’s been kind of slow or maybe I’m just impatient but it’s just been the setting building up and a little background info