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"I wasn’t passionate about my work, and that made me sad. Shouldn’t you love what you do when you spend more time at work than you do at home with friends and family? I spent four years going to school, another year getting certified, and then taught on my own for two years. And I can’t remember one single moment during that time that I was absolutely confident this was what I was meant to do."

"All I know is that... every morning when I got up to get ready for work, I did it with dread... Dealing with angry parents who yelled at you because they thought you weren’t doing enough, yelled at you because they thought you were doing too much, or just yelled at you because they had no one else to yell at when their son or daughter was struggling in school wasn’t what I signed up for."

I AM HEIDI

Why the f is this first story from Avery's POV? SHE HAS ENOUGH SCREEN TIME

"Failure just means you are trying, and there is no shame in that"

Love that

"... It’s much easier to tell yourself you’re a good person than it is to actually be one.”

“The thing that isn’t good and isn’t evil... The absence of goodness that still holds the potential for goodness... There is no river there now, but there might have been once, and there might be one day again. All living creatures have in them some good, some bad, and a lot of vakul... A ravine won’t water crops or quench the dying. At some point, there has to be a river, or what good can you really claim?”

Captain America is drunk

LMAO

"It’s not enough to have meant to do good; if you don’t do good, most gods—those of the rivers, the sky, and the fields—don’t care for your motivations. Why should they?”

ok so it's good so far, but why are the chapters so long?

Ok, I have 3 days left to read this. I'm sick, but this means I have time so... bright side? Restarting it from the beginning, because I remember nothing (oops)

when you are sick, awake instead of sleeping, and have work in the morning

"It was the three of us. Me, Theo, and his tongue."

🤣🤣🤣

I don't know what it is, but I can't stop rolling my eyes

“I plop down on the carpet and cross my legs beneath me… Basically, I’m in what Sutton likes to call my “librarian” uniform, a.k.a. the sweater/skirt/tights combo. But there’s a reason why librarians dress this way. It’s stylish and cute as hell, and it’s the perfect outfit for reading by a warm fire.”

A girl after my own heart

“Taking care of a dog isn’t easy, you know?”
He laughs, and then, seeing that I’m deadly serious, stops and shakes his head. “Right, of course,” he says. “Does he need special treats or something?”
“Rudy is on a schedule,” I say. “The special treats are just one part of it. He likes to go on his morning walk at five a.m…”

Hell no, I can wake up at 5, but no chance of a walk that early

“I have a weakness for beards. I admit it. I know all I should care about is what’s inside a person’s heart, but a beard just does it for me. Or scruff. Anything except a lone mustache and my head is turning to check the guy out. It’s my fatal flaw, and I’ve come to peace with it. ”

“We’re holiday hate-fucking, which everyone knows is a thing. ”

I think I missed that memo 😂

“You’re a squatter. You don’t even have a lease that you’re not paying.”
“You don’t have a lease,” I mockingly singsong back to him,”

Are they in the 4th grade?

“You know, I did hear things about you,” he says, standing, and I swear he inches closer to me, too. “That you were bossy. Weird.”
“You heard right.”
“I’m sure I did.”
I move a little closer. I even let my eyes dip to look at his lips before dragging them back up to stare at him head-on.
“I heard things about you, too, I heard that you were into bossy, weird girls.”

“I stare at him, my heart pounding. Because you were right are the three best words in the English language next to I love you.”

😂

“Still, there’s no point crying over spilled eggnog.”

😂

“This ticket,” he says, glancing at it, “says I’ve attempted to bribe an ‘officer of the spirit.’ With my d***.”

That was funny

“Maggie, I need to say something.”
Oh, great. He’s going to try to get out of decorating again. Well, I didn’t make it this far to turn back, so he might as well stop now. I’m about to open my mouth and say just that …
“I wanted to apologize,” he says. “I’ve been… sort of a dick.”

The mmc is cute, the fmc is a little infuriating

“Are they all that attractive?” I ask. “Were their parents supermodels or something? Did they create them in a lab?”

“After my encounter with Ryan Sheppard, I’m annoyed. Like when you go to the bakery dreaming of cinnamon rolls, but they’re sold out. Like that level of annoyed, except worse because you don’t want to have sex with a cinnamon roll.”

I just have to know, for science or what not, is there a smut story with a cinnamon roll? I mean there is one about a doorknob so…

“Guess who’s back in town,”
“The Sheppard brothers.”
“Really?”
“All three of them? Are you telling me there’s an actual threesome of hotness to choose from this holiday season?”

That could be its own book, just saying

“We’ve been over this, Maggie. No one is shaming you for liking romance novels.”
“I would hope not,” I agree, but I scrunch my nose in suspicion because I suspect she’s going to elaborate.
“It’s just that our book club reads nothing but Christmas romance novels. Every month. All. Year. Long,” ”

"You were thinking about me?"
"I think about you a lot. When I see something lovely. Or when I see something that makes me laugh, I wonder if it would make you laugh too."

Girl, just take the man's cookie.
What is wrong with you?
And no, this isn't an innuendo

Yes I almost cried at work today so I went with a middle grade holiday book. Don't judge me.