A review by abskyea
I Think We've Been Here Before by Suzy Krause

4.0

I enjoyed reading this, it was a beautiful book about relationships and how life feels when there is a finite amount of time left. The larger concept of "being here before" went over my head, though. I think I caught glimpses of it and I highlighted a lot of lovely passages, but not sure I entirely got it.

"This is what marriage looks like after so many years. She can hold his hand and feel comforted by him even as she wants to shove his face into the Jell-O salad."

"She can almost feel the memory of him curled into her side as she eats her cinnamon bun, the smell of his hair, still a little sweaty from sleep, the pride emanating from his body at having so successfully surprised his mother. Like it was only a moment ago and not years. How unfair that time only goes one way, that by the time you understand how much you will miss something, it’s only because you’re already missing it."

"You think things like this are going to change you into someone else, but generally they make you more of who you already are."

"Kids don’t realize how hard it is to be the adult, how courage doesn’t just show up, how life is actually more frightening when you’re older because the stakes get higher and higher. You love more and more people and also understand more fully how fragile and temporary they are."