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"Ethan has seen me in my Costco underwear; he's seen me berated by my husband. He's seen me cry. He's felt safe each time."

I am crying.

"It feels like we're watching the opening scene of a movie about our town, where they pan in on the whole thing before we get to the action."

"And then what happens?"

"I'm having a hard time seeing the happy ending."

"There's no happy ending to an unhappy story."❤️‍🩹

"It's the outfit of a teenage lifeguard, but I'm having a hard time seeing Ethan as anything but the grown-up man who is currently holding me together."

Read Chapter 22.

"Really I'm fine,"
"You're not fine. We won and you're about to cry."
"It's all of it. The fact that Pete had to be bullied into spending twenty-four hours with his children. The fact that my kids have never been with him for that long, including when we were married. The fact that I haven't had twenty-four hours to myself since my mom died. All of it."

I wanna hug Ali.🫂

Read chapter 20.

"I guess it was a way of honoring her. Tidying up her life."
"And that's not something you'd do for yourself?"🥺

Read chapter 19.

The carbonated ism>>>
(Only feels good when she is carbonated, when she isn't feeling good she is flat.)

"Just a fun easy summer where the end takes care of itself. The magic of the summer romance lies in the constraints."

Read Chapter 18.

"You're the architect of your own experience."

"It's funny how you're meeting me for the first time, and I've known you forever,"

I was smiling during this entire chapter.

I read chapter 17.
"My schedule/plans/wants are entirely dependent on Pete's being satiated first."
"I waited for him to notice how beautiful our family was. I waited for him to look at our daughters the way he looked at his new road bike."
Ali deserves so much more than Pete, I felt similarly in reading Same Time Next Summer, with Sam and Jack. Ali And Sam both settled for just below the bare minimum.❤️‍🩹

Finished chapter 16.
"You were the girl who said what you wanted, wore what you wanted."

"And you're still that I saw it the other night when you were with your kids, and even when you were trying to hop on that skateboard. Just so natural and sure of who you are."

"When I was a kid and had no idea who I was or who I could be in the world, I liked seeing how confident you were."🥺

I am tearing up.

I read chapter 15.

Annabel Monaghan is quickly becoming a new favorite author me, in the same way that Abby Jimenez is.

"When I get home, Pete's car is already in the driveway. It's blocking the garage, and it occurs to me that he's not being thoughtless: it would just never dawn on him that I wouldn't be home, right where he left me."

I finished chapter 14.

"I have stepped into something completely unfamiliar and unexpected. And I want to take another step forward." ♥️

Annabel Monaghan has such a way with words that are so straight to the point but pack a punch.

I read chapter 13.

"Tonight I felt like I was seeing it all for the first time. Like I just walked into the room and was like, wait, is this my life? How -- and when -- did I give up control of every single thing to this man?"

I read chapter 12.

"We are dividing the things that don't matter. It's the things that aren't on the list that tell the story of our marriage."

" I've adjusted, and I'm doing just fine on my own. He doesn't get to know what that looks like.

I read Chapter 11.

"We walk into the inn and I have the same sense of awe that I've had every single time I've been here. It's as if by walking through the double oak doors, I am retrieving a piece of my heart."

I finished reading chapter 10.
"I myself am a ball of unfocused longing... I long for a partnership, and I long for freedom. I long to be enmeshed with someone without losing myself. I want all of it. Maybe that's the essence of a summer romance: it's the impossible thing --- a love affair with no reality check."❤️‍🩹

I am picking this book back up after starting it in June 2024.

"Free wedding tomorrow -- going noce. Going twice,"

"No thanks, we're good,"

"I've always planned to marry Sam on the beach."

Finished chapter 59.

"This feels like my whole life right now, knowing generally where I'm going without a single specific spelled out for me."

Finished chapter 58.

I finished reading chapter 57.

"Sometimes you have to walk away from all the things you don't want to make room for the future. Blank canvas."

Just finished chapter 56 and I am SO proud of Sam.

Finished chapter 55.

"I think you've constructed a really nice life that you feel safe in."
"What's wring with safe?"
"Nothing at all. Safe is great. There's just a balance between safe and free, and I think you're a person who night like to be a little more free in your life than you are."

I heavily relate to this statement.

Finished chapter 54 with only tears running down my face.

"You're the most important person that's ever been in my life, and you're not even the most important person in your own."

Page 243, so... I'm sobbing.

"You're the cake that looks normal until people dig in and find out it's spectacular. You're the chocolate fucking cake, Sam and you won't even choose it."

Finished chapter 53.

"You cheat because you think it's going to make you someone else, that it's going to save you from your own damn misery. And that's the lie you're telling yourself. I guess that's the point, Sam. Another person is not going to turn you into anything but who you already are. Make sure you're not trying to turn yourself into someone else for Jack."

"There's no life in a straight line,"

Finished chapter 52. Cake testing.

Finished chapter 51.