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“He lifts one eyebrow. ‘What would I hide?’
‘I don’t know.’ I shrug. ‘A giant tentacle dildo. Viagra. A diary with a pink locket.’
‘None of that would be worth hiding,’ he says, the most quietly confident man in the entire world.”
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“‘Have you considered that maybe you’re already the way I want you to be? That maybe there are no signals because nothing needs to be changed?’”

“‘It would be a waste.’
‘A waste of what?’
‘Of you.’”
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How is this already the FUNNIEST book in the series

“How does one court a serial killer? I really thought the murder video was a slam dunk. Show her I care by imagining her as one of my victims.” Yo this book is funny af 😭

“We celebrate the tree that stretches to the sky; but it is the ground we should ultimately thank.”

“‘It is not a promotion. It is my rightful place among my kin. It is when I have been owed, since my fathers death.’” OK buddy but Ella isn’t entitled to what SHE is owed? Ironic. I hate this guy lol

It’s getting reeeaalll hard to like Natt tbh. There better be some spectacular groveling bc Ella doesn’t deserve the shit he dishes her.

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“They were through with lust and lactation, beyond tears and terror.… They were old enough to be irritable when and where they chose, tired enough to look forward to death, disinterested enough to accept the idea of pain while ignoring the presence of pain. They were, in fact and at last, free.“

"'Sure, but I'm not little. I'm twenty-eight, and I'm a business owner. Even this house is mine.'
'You called me your little baby boy three times this morning,'
I cleared my throat. 'I thought you were a cat.'"

i just got KU for $0.99 for the first 3 months and I've never had KU before. I'm practically bussing with excitement to read all these books on my TBR lol. Give me some recs!!! (romance/romantasy/sci-fi romance, dark romance pls)

“‘What for? He wasn't nowhere around when you was born. Your mama didn't name you nothing. The nine days wasn't up before she throwed you on the junk heap. When got you I named you myself on the ninth day. You named after my dead brother. Charles Breedlove. A good man. Ain't no Samson never come to no good end.’”

“Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another—physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in history of human thought….
“She was never able, after her education in the movies, to look at a face and not assign it some category in the scale of absolute beauty, and the scale was one she absorbed in full from the silver screen.”

“An escapade of drunkenness, no matter how routine, had its own ceremonial close. They gave substance to the minutes and hours otherwise dim and unrecalled. They relieved the tiresomeness of poverty, gave grandeur to the dead rooms. In these violent breaks in routine that were themselves routine, she could display the style and imagination of what she believed to be her own true self.”

“But I did know that nobody ever asked me what I wanted for Christmas. Had any adult with the power to fulfill my desires taken me seriously and asked me what I wanted, they would have known that I did not want to have anything to own, or to possess any object. I wanted rather to feel something on Christmas day. The real question would have been, ‘Dear Claudia, what experience would you like on Christmas?’”

"'One day, I'll know what it's like to have four weddings in one day..... Because I'm coming, Whitney. I'm on my way up, and nothing you do to sabotage my business is going to stop me. I'm worth ten of you. I've always been worth ten of you, and you were right to fear me moving in on your market.'" YEESSSSSS TELL HER

“‘Where’s the wedding?’
‘The Four Seasons.’
‘The hotel? Or Total Landscaping?’
‘Don’t pretend I didn’t double-check ten times.’”
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“‘He is already part of you…. It isn’t possible to love and to part. You will wish it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal…. I only wish poets would say this, too: love is of the body; not the body, but of the body. Ah! the misery that would be saved if we confessed that!”

“‘I taught him to trust in love. I said: ‘When love comes, that is reality.’ I said: ‘Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand?’”

“‘It is that live and youth matter intellectually.’”

“”I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms.… I have cared for you since that man died. I cannot live without you. 'No good,’ I thought; 'she is marrying some one else; but I meet you again when all the world is glorious water and sun. As you came through the wood I saw that nothing else mattered. I called. I wanted to live and have my chance of joy."” 😭😭❤️❤️❤️

“The contest lay not between love and duty. Perhaps there never is such a contest. It lay between the real and the pretended, and Lucy's first aim was to defeat herself. As her brain clouded over, as the memory of the views grew dim and the words of the book died away, she returned to her old shibboleth of nerves. She "conquered her breakdown." Tampering with the truth, she forgot that the truth had ever been.”

“It is obvious enough for the reader to conclude, "She loves young Emerson." A reader in Lucy's place would not find it obvi-ous. Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice, and we welcome "nerves" or any other shibboleth that will cloak our personal desire. She loved Cecil; George made her nervous; will the reader explain to her that the phrases should have been reversed?”

“…she reflected that it is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in the scenery, a face in the audience, an irruption of the audience on to the stage, and all our carefully planned gestures mean nothing, or mean too much.”

“Well educated, well endowed, and not deft-cient physically, he remained in the grip of a certain devil whom the modern world knows as self-consciousness, and whom the mediaval, with dimmer vision, worshipped as asceticism. A Gothic statue implies celibacy, just as a Greek statue implies fruition…”

“But alas! the creature grows degenerate. In her heart also there are springing up strange desires. She too is enamored of heavy winds, and vast panoramas, and green expanses of the sea. She has marked the kingdom of this world, how full it is of wealth, and beauty, and war--a radiant crust, built around the central fires, spinning towards the receding heavens.“

“"My dear," said the old man gently, "I think that you are repeating what you have heard older people say. You are pretending to be touchy; but you are not really. Stop being so tiresome, and tell me instead what part of the church you want to see.””

“…’have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time—beautiful?’”

“Thousands of years ago, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus wrote, "No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man."
“…. Books worth coming back to, not just because they keep changing for me, but because I am changing as well.”