Dannii Elle’s Reviews > Blue Sisters > Status Update

"A lot was written about romantic love... But this, too, was deserving of rapture, of song. Before she ever knew a lover's body, she knew her sister's, could see herself in their long feet and light eyes, their sleek limbs and curled hair. And, before life became big and difficult, there were moments with them when it was simply good."

"She'd heard once that guilt was for something you'd done - you could feel guilt for a certain action or behaviour but fundamentally know you were a good person - but shame was deeper, shame was for who you were."

"Nothing can stop you. Not even you."

"All the sex and booze and coke and shit, it's not really about that stuff. it's about people who have fallen out of love with life trying to get back to how they used to feel"

"The problem with her pain was that it was invisible. Avery wished she could have given it crutches, some object that made it obvious to everyone around her, but she had learned now that most pain is private."

"Their family had always been good at hellos and goodbyes, moments ending even as they began. It was easy to love someone in the beginnings and endings; it was all the time in between that was so hard."

"I wish I saw people the way you do,"...
"How is that?"
"Generously."

"She didn't know that love could feel like this, so honeyed, so sweet. That her body deserved such tenderness."

"Living in L.A is like dating a really beautiful person who has nothing to say... It's fine for a while because, you know, look at them, but eventually you're going to realise you need to be around people who read books and have their real noses."

I'm calling the five stars now! I can't remember ever being so moved by a prologue before.