2.0

Not sure why I kept going with this book. It wasn't terrible and it was good that in the end she gave the point of being a strong person herself without someone else. On the whole wasn't an amazing book, it did have some bits of comedy but eh. Not a total waste of time. I had to turn it into the library and then recheck it out so it took me extra long to read also that I wasn't in a rush. IT did take me less than a year...by like a day....ha.

"I just don't know how anyone ever knows what to do with their bodies. I catch myself worrying about what my arms are doing when I am walking alone, and that is just walking. Alone"(p.124).

"I have lived twenty-five years in this body by myself, and I feel pretty confident that, by now, my personality is staying as it is"(p. 125).

"There is something else I should have taken away from the summer I spent infatuated with an essentially betrothed barista, and that is that it is a waste of time to have a crush on someone who already has someone else"(p. 144).

"I do, however, want to be seen from afar, and admired, and then wooed. By someone I adore right away. Basically, I want to expend minimal effort and have somebody fall madly in love with me just by virtue of being near me for a handful of days, and then it will just work out that we're perfect for one another. I do not see what the big deal is about that"(p. 194).

"You always forget that it's impossible to grieve every minute of the day. You always forget that a mourning period can include laughter, but just because it's there, it won't mean that you're really okay. It got worse before it got better"(p. 237).

"So if, and when, I do fall in love, I won't be all that surprised if I do so in spite of all my best--and bewildering--efforts to the contrary. Anyway, I have a lot of time"(p. 252).