Rating: 5 out of 5

Beautiful. I picked this up every spare moment I had and devoured it. I cared for the characters.

This was a recommendation from a goodreads contact. I wouldn’t have come across it otherwise. Thank you!

Highlighted passages:

the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa.

Showing up is what counts

His breath smells like socks wet from snow.

People tell boring lies about politics, God and love. You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question: What is your favourite book?

Someday, you may think of marrying. Pick someone who thinks you’re the only person in the room.

We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone.

I know what words do, he thinks. They let us feel less.

‘We aren’t the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.’

Originally posted to my Goodreads account