'kisses by the billions happen every day, even in a lonely world like ours. but this is a kiss for the ages.'
it was cute until it wasnt. i get what th'kisses by the billions happen every day, even in a lonely world like ours. but this is a kiss for the ages.'
it was cute until it wasnt. i get what the author was tryna do but it was not for me at all. boring and boring and boring. it did make me tear up so ill give her that...more
'can you miss someone you've never had? because i miss iris.'
im in between ratings because i loved part one so much, it was a so**spoiler alert**
'can you miss someone you've never had? because i miss iris.'
im in between ratings because i loved part one so much, it was a solid 4 stars before the 'halftime' part hit and then it just got boring bc they act so different and not in a good way lol
gna review part one by itself cus i enjoyed tf out of that, besides the times i almost ripped my hair out and died of anger bc FUCKKKK caleb to hell.
the constant sex was so strange and out of character for them both. part two was so rushed, its depressing.
’ours is a love that reimagines-that peels back the sky at high noon searching for the stars, collecting them like shells in a bucket. we bathe in stardust, drink from the milky way, and dance on the moon. we pierce the firmament, peer into infinity, and tread on time and space. there is no before. there is no after. now gives birth to forever. this moment may die, but this love never will. time is not a line. it's a circle, and we, august and iris, we stand at the center.'...more
'i could tell her every thing that interests her interests me because it's a clue to how i can reach her, how i can love her the way she deserves.'
big'i could tell her every thing that interests her interests me because it's a clue to how i can reach her, how i can love her the way she deserves.'
big sigh. this was very disturbing to say the least. why would i want to read about tiktok and doja cat? i get she was trying to make a living but why does tiktok have to exist in this world?!?! so disappointing.
judah i love you. you made this book bearable <3...more
'change lives through art maybe. cherish your friends. stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. experience new things. l
'change lives through art maybe. cherish your friends. stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. experience new things. love and be loved, if you ever get the chance.'
dex and em, em and dex have my heart <3
this was very boring and unnecessarily long. i see the potential for a great book but needs lots of editing lol why's one paragraph 800 pages long? im tired
if someone asked emma how she and her husband had met, she told them: "we grew up together." ...more
"and then i met you, and i didn't feel so lost or aimless. because even if there was nothing else for me, it felt like loving you was what i was made "and then i met you, and i didn't feel so lost or aimless. because even if there was nothing else for me, it felt like loving you was what i was made for. and it didn't matter what anyone thought of me. it didn't matter if i didn't have any other big plans for myself, as long as i got to love you."
"it's the only thing that's ever come naturally to me. the thing i don't have to work at. i loved you all the way across the country, and at my darkest, on my worst days, i still love you more than i've ever loved anything else."
wyn get behind me <3333<3<3 they don't get you like i do
wynharriet are so loved by me, i need more of them. this was art this was magic this was love and tears. obsessed with them. they would love januarygus <3
☇ 'you are in all of my happiest places. you are where my mind goes when it needs to be soothed.'
'his love is steady, constant. easier than breathing, because breathing is something you can overthink, to the point that you forget how your lungs work and get yourself into a panic. i could never forget how to love wyn.'...more
'I still sleep a lot and cry a lot, I’m still slow at almost everything and get stressed out over very small stuff. I don’t know if I will ever be ”we'I still sleep a lot and cry a lot, I’m still slow at almost everything and get stressed out over very small stuff. I don’t know if I will ever be ”well”. I’ll settle for…okey'
'and what might a soul look like, if you could touch it, if you could dance with the light and the dark of it.'
this started very hopeful,
'and what might a soul look like, if you could touch it, if you could dance with the light and the dark of it.'
this started very hopeful, i loved how it began and how it progressed but that ended real quick by the middle of part two. boring doesn't even cover it. the only good thing about this was how much it made me cry, especially when i didn't expect it at all but yum we love crying ...more
'our eyes hold like our hands won't. i love you, he blinks. prove it, i sigh.'
i hate this book and i love it. the pain ???? like why. CUT
'our eyes hold like our hands won't. i love you, he blinks. prove it, i sigh.'
i hate this book and i love it. the pain ???? like why. CUT ME & I BLEED THEMMMM
my literal roman empire, my babies. i love this book and them with my whole heart.
im the number one cheating trope hater. you cannot give me a single reason good enough to make me forgive you for cheating so you might laugh at me for still loving bj and i might deserve it but if you get it you get it and having read the second mp book and knowing bj's reason- i won't say i forgive him necessarily but i do love him and if i wondered why magnolia still loves him i don't wonder it anymore because i completely love him and he's just baxter james ballentine and while he pissed me tf off- i cannot explain how much he has pissed me off- i still love him and i'm officially a bj apologist as i should be.
'how many loves do you get in a lifetime?'
'and there are all sorts of love in this world and mine is killing me, i think.'
i'm confused why we got so much of tom england.... that perfume ass name. jessa talks about him like he's getting advertised for a perfume brand oh my days !!! what does this old ass man have in common with a 22 year old... i have so much to say about this but i don't even wanna get into it. he's cute and i feel bad for him but can he shut up please.
bees <3 the national geographic <3 the willow tree <3 dec 3rd <3 the dartmouth house <3 all of bj's tattoos <33333
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➳ 'then i remembered it, like a physical punch in the gut, how much i loved him. really loved him. to the bone, loved him. cut me and i'd bleed him.'
➳ 'can you die from a broken heart, do you know? and if i did and they cut me wide open, would i bleed loving him?'
➳ 'i love her in the dark. i mean fuck it- i down and out love her in all spectrums of light, even the absence of it.'
➳ 'everything wonderful, everything magical, everything painful, everything beautiful and spectacular and wretched and defining that has happened to me happened with him. and i hate him for it.'
➳ 'because bj and i are unquantifiable. it's the nuances of all the ways we love each other and have loved each other and keep on accidentally loving each other and it's the intricacies of our threads we've knotted together and it's the secrets we know about each other and it's that one broken heart we share.'
"that's the power of literature, you know, it can act like little love letters between people who can only explain their feelings by pointing
"that's the power of literature, you know, it can act like little love letters between people who can only explain their feelings by pointing at other people's."
fredrik can never let me down. such a beautiful book with beautiful stories about beautiful and complicated people <3
i love finding quotes in books that resonate with me, makes me feel so seen. fredrik always speaks to my soul. this was amazing in every way. it was nothing i expected it to be, but so much better.
"always afraid that someone will notice you, because no one's supposed to do that."
i love each of them and proud of them all <3 especially zara, no one gets her like i do ...more
'what an uncomfortable, terrible source of shame it is for the world that the victim is so often the one left with the most empathy for others
'what an uncomfortable, terrible source of shame it is for the world that the victim is so often the one left with the most empathy for others.’
this book is my baby, these characters are my children, and this will be buried with me.
beartown is a small town that brings hope to a small community, the courage it takes for an individual to go against expectations. and holds the secrets that may separate them.
it's about love and loss, loyalty and betrayal, resistance and courage. it's about parenthood, classism, child loss, grief, toxic masculinity, rape and sexual assault, abuse and suicide, sexism, homophobia, and so much more.
while everyone has their own story, this book mostly revolves around the rape of a girl- maya, and the consequences of the people's actions and lack thereof.
the writing, the pacing, the plot, the characters and their stories. you would think that this would be messy with all the topics talked about in such a regular sized book but no, it was paced so well. the way every topic was seeped into the characters so flawlessly was mwah, perfection.
every single character was written so incredibly. he gradually introduced each character and unfolded their stories without slowing down the general plot.
hockey was the heart of beartown and its people. it shows that while everyone has their own secrets and battles, hockey will either be something that brings them all together or keep them apart.
onto the characters ⤵️
amat - my baby
✦ he's so kind, loving, and selfless. he tried so hard to do right by everyone, especially his mother. him getting maya a guitar? absolutely everything. helping his mother by cleaning so much so that she wouldn't have to clean as much? my heart...more
'if only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter and bread with only the scent of jam
'if only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter and bread with only the scent of jam spread out on top of it. it was the best time of her life.'
i love this book so much it hurts to write this review.
a girl and her love for words, a man and his accordian, a woman and her curse words, a jewish fist fighter and his art, a boy and his love for his neighbor.
i love them all so much, they all touched my heart in different ways. i didn't think i'd love a historical fiction this much but this is going to live in my heart forever.
'i have to say that although it broke my heart, i was, and still am, glad i was there.'
set in the time of world war 2, in the time of nazi germany- liesel is sent to live with a foster family because her mother can no longer care for her, she moves to himmel street and lives with rosa and hans hubermann. she becomes best friends with rudy steiner. later comes max, my favorite- thinking about him makes me cry. their little family is the cutest and saddest. max is jewish and asks the hubermanns to let him take refuge in their home (knowing it's dangerous and regretting it but needing it)
everyone in the hubermann family had a role in max's life and that alone makes a bitch cry. i can't think about them without crying. him doing what he did to keep them safe???? kill me now.
➤ rosa & hans- opposite in every way but love each other so fiercely. rosa and her curse words- so misunderstood. hans and his kind, kind heart <3
'remember that she was the woman with the instrument strapped to her body in the long moon-slit night. she was a jew feeder without a question in the world on a man's first night in mulching. and she was an arm reacher, deep into a mattress, to deliver a sketchbook to a teenage girl.'
➤ liesel & rudy- best of friends. my babies, they deserve the world <333
'rudy steiner was scared of the book thief's kiss. he must have longed for it so much. he must have loved her so incredibly hard. so hard that he would never ask for her lips again and would go to his grave without them.'
➤ liesel & max. that's it. them <3
"often i wish this would all be over, liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands."
the snowman, the weather reports, the gifts, the crosswords, the 13 presents, the books, the illustrations, the word shaker, the accordian, the reading, the learning, the basement wall, liesel's bed, the fireplace, the kitchen, ilsa's library, the cookies, the bikes, the soccer ball, the stealing, the genuine love.
A DEFINITION NOT FOUND IN THE DICTIONARY not leaving: an act of trust and love, often deciphered by children.
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➻ 'and it would show me, once again, that one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.'
➻ 'don't make me feel happy. please, don't fill me up and let me think that something good can come of any of this. look at my bruises. look at this graze. do you see the graze inside me? do you see it growing before your very eyes, eroding me? i don't want to hope for anything anymore.'
➻ 'certainly, war meant dying, but it always shifted the ground beneath a person's feet when it was someone who had once lived and breathed in close proximity.'
➻ 'the words were on their way, and when they arrived, liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like the rain.'
➻ 'usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "i'm okay" we say. "i'm alright." but sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. that's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer- it's a question. even now, i wonder how much of my life is convinced.'
➻ 'sometimes i think my papa is an accordian. when he looks at me and smiles and breathes, i hear the notes.'
i have hated the words and i have loved them, and i hope i have made them right....more
I know that the way home is getting longer and longer every morning. But I loved you because your brain, your world, was always bigger than ev
I know that the way home is getting longer and longer every morning. But I loved you because your brain, your world, was always bigger than everyone else’s. There’s still a lot of it left.
this sums it up ⤵
'This is a story about memories and about letting go. It’s a love letter and a slow farewell between a man and his grandson, and between a dad and his boy.'
"i was meant for you and you were meant for me, and even when we got in our own way, even when we screwed up, even then my soul knew, my heart
"i was meant for you and you were meant for me, and even when we got in our own way, even when we screwed up, even then my soul knew, my heart knew, it was wrong being away from you. i don't ever want to ache like that again."
yasmenjosiah <3 kassim <333
'do people remember the exact moment they fall in love? i've learned it's not one moment, but a million of them.
more of a 4.70, im lowkey conflicted on what to rate this since i did have some problems with it but they're so precious and so loved by me so whatever but also i didnt like how they got back together lol. it felt so off because after everything you're telling me THATS IT? but they delivered on the angst, the pain, the tears, the confessions, and all the love words <33 and i wish we got more of kassim towards the end bc why'd my empathetic child disappear :(
kennedy portrayed grief so so well, had me crying every chapter. she poured her heart, blood, sweat & tears into this.
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‣'when the two people who belong together find each other and collide. they combust. they stare at one another in awe because what are the odds that you find this ever in a lifetime? that was us.'
‣'while i'm sitting here unable to breathe, punishing myself every day, my life is waiting for me. i must embrace the necessity of finding joy in the borders of my own soul, sketching the parameters of contentment along the lines of my heart and myself.'
‣"i've learned that life isn't about taking what you deserve, it's about getting all you can while you can because it's short. because it's fickle. because it takes when we least expect it. now everything i've lost makes me cherish the things i have, instead of always being afraid i'll lose them."
‣'i laughed. then she laughed and i wondered if this-finding someone you can laugh with when everything hurts-was the stuff happily ever afters were made of."
our union wasn't just made by the good. the pain and the grief and the sorrows forged us together as much as the joys.
'sometimes life is very hard. sometimes it demands so much of you that you start losing pieces of yourself as you stretch out to give what the
'sometimes life is very hard. sometimes it demands so much of you that you start losing pieces of yourself as you stretch out to give what the world wants to take.'
why was this book so good. what crack was in it because the way i was so in love with it all. januarygus deserve the world ...more
"but I think there is a magical link between you and me. a bond that not even distance can break."
this book will forever be in my heart, i
"but I think there is a magical link between you and me. a bond that not even distance can break."
this book will forever be in my heart, i adore them so much. no matter how many times i reread it, i’ll always feel the same <3
"a girl who writes letters to her missing brother, and the boy who reads them."
couldn't have changed a thing about this book. it's definitely with flaws but i love them so much so i'm blind to them. the way they signed off their letters before and after, their vows, the hill & the garden, the morning runs, and them writing beside each other on their typewriters with tea.
iris, is me and i am her. i love the way she did everything- how she carried herself & how she spoke about and dealt with losing people she loved. she's brave and strong and i connected with her in more ways than one. she spoke to my soul and i love everything about her.
"i’m not afraid to be alone, but i’m tired of being the one left behind. i’m tired of having to rearrange my life after the people within it depart, as if i’m a puzzle and I’m now missing pieces and I will never feel that pure sense of completion again."
"but there’s also a small voice in the back of my mind, a voice that tells me, ‘you will miss so much by being so guarded."
she didn't let anyone pity her and i love that so much. she's me
'because i don't want your pity. because i'm holding myself together by a thread.'
roman, my sweet sweet sweet sweet husband. he's the cutest ever i just wanna squeeze him and kiss him and hug him. his kindness, his selflessness, his heart, his soul, i love all of him <3333
'their names would be entwined—roman and iris or winnow and kitt because could you truly have one without the other?'
he was so gentle and patient with her. he checked up on her when she went home randomly while they were supposedly rivals, he travelled to the front lines of war to be with her, he shielded her using his body without a moment of hesitation. like what more could you possibly ask for? he's everything.
'he didn’t want to live in a world without her and her words.'
'she couldn’t bear to live in a world without him.'
they're so cute, so pure, so sweet, so full of love & life. they deserve each other and the best kind of happiness and that's all i'll accept in ruthless vows.
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➻ ‘i think about how effortless it is to lose oneself in words, and yet also find who you are.’
➻ ‘your grief will never fully fade; it will always be with you—a shadow you carry in your soul—but it will become fainter as your life becomes brighter.’
➻ 'sometimes she tried to mentally trace the path that had brought her to this place, but it was too difficult to relive. it stirred up half-buried feelings in her, too dangerous to unearth at the moment.'
➻ "i don’t know who i would be without you, but you have made me in all ways better than i ever was or could have ever hoped to be.”
➻ "i pray that my days will be long at your side. let me fill and satisfy every longing in your soul. may your hand be in mine, by sun and by night. let our breaths twine and our blood become one, until our bones return to dust. even then, may i find your soul still sworn to mine.”
➻ 'i want to know everything about you, iris. i want to know your hopes and your dreams. i want to know what irritates you and what makes you smile and what makes you laugh and what you long for most in this world.'
➻ "my iris,” he said, “there is no question that you are the brave one, all on your own."
➻ 'She didn’t think he could hear her, but she hoped he could feel the force of such a whisper in his chest. how deep her love was for him.'
a piece of armour, because i trust you. a glint of falling steel, because i feel safe with you....more
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