Caitlin’s Reviews > Beach Read > Status Update

“Sometimes, being a parent feels like being a kid who someone has mistakenly handed another kid.”

“I don’t need snowflakes as long as there’s January.” 🥹

More dates should be cotton candy fueled tbh

“Why does everybody try to make women’s writing semi-autobiographical?”

"My Happily Ever After was a strand of strung-together happy-for-nows, extending back not just to a year ago, but to thirty years before."

"Love, after all, was often made not of shiny things but practical ones. Ones that grew old and rusted only to be repaired and polished. Things that got lost and had to be replaced on a regular basis."

"Dammit, R.E.M. was right: Every single person on the planet had to take turns hurting. Sometimes all you could do was hold onto each other tight until the dark spat you back out."

"that intoxicating, rapid-release form of friendship, usually reserved for sleepaway camps and orientation week of college."

"Happy. Not giddy or overjoyed, but that low, steady level of happiness that, in the best periods of life, rides underneath everything else, a buffer between you and the world you are walking over."

"You have to keep falling in love with every new version of each other, and it's the best feeling in the whole world."