so cringe and cheesy but so cute. like shes somehow taken all the tropes i absolutely despise and made it super super cute. wes bennet u are the standard. first tiktok romance book of the year 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

"I’d loved that he liked cats better than dogs. It had been another reason why he always seemed smarter than the rest of the neighborhood kids" shes too right

“God, don’t cry, Liz.” He swallowed and looked panicked." BYEBYEBYE

"I heard the first few notes of “Forrest Gump” by Frank Ocean" frank mentioned 🥹 nytt album når da?

“She’s not you.” “What?” “She. Isn’t. You.»

so unhinged??? the ending was unexpected but perfect. natalie was so unlikable (which obviously was intentional) but i couldnt help but feel for her. if this book was a song itd be "get free" by lana. also i cant believe that ANNE HATHAWAY is acting in the movie adaptation for this..

"A man may work from sun to sun, but a woman's work is never done."

"I was just beginning to process what that man had said. Exhausted and beautiful: Did I look exhausted? And why was that a good thing?"

"Hey, Lord! Just wanted to bother you for a quick sec. See, I'm having some trouble with my assignment? And I was wondering if you could give me something else to do instead?

The Lord does not reply.

There are no good days anymore, it seems. Only bad ones. When I tilt my face to catch the sunlight, I don't feel His breath on my face. I don't feel anything at all. I'm starting to feel like a woman who has been knocked up by a man who will no longer answer her calls. T's a test, I remind myself. For days, my mind has been nervously cirling a single question: What happens if I fail the test? Except now, when I ask the question, I hear an echo of another one: What happens if i pass?

first murakami read ever and i enjoyed it!! doomed yuri. beautifully written and i love whenever a book has a lot of cat motifs.

"I never had a cat again. I still like cats, though I decided at the time that that poor little cat who climbed the tree and never returned would be my first and last cat. I couldn't forget that little cat and start loving another."

"Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the Earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?"

"I pictured cats, starving to death in a closed-up apartment. Sott, small carnivores. I - the real me - was dead, and they were alive, devouring my flesh, chewing on my heart, sucking my blood. If I listened very carefully, somewhere far, far away 1 could hear the cats lapping up my brain. Three lithe cats, surrounding my broken head, slurping up the mushy grey soup within. The tips of their red, rough tongues licked the soft folds of my mind. And with each lick of their tongues, my mind - like a shimmer of hot air - flickered and faded away."

bittersweet and cruel at times. hirai and kumi legitimately had me sobbing. beautifully written and im gonna strive to have no regrets when it comes to my loved ones. lived up to the hype and the constant glaze!!! i have a parasocial relationship with every single character in this book lmaoo