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A review by jan35104974
We Got the Beat by Jenna Miller
4.0
One of my favorite scenes was when mack was recovering from her concussion and jojo bought her a stuffed animal when she went to go check up on her 🥹 thought that was a sweet moment.
Memorable quotes:
- “Hey, paper girl."...." Hey, volleyball girl"
- "l'd gotten enough dirty looks over the years for reading in-store without buying anything."
- "Mom told me once that have the kind of face people find approachable. I'd never had the heart to tell her that l'm approachable because l'm fat."
- "Well, I am fat. A doctor confirmed it medically and everything"
- "l'm also a lesbian, so it's never a good idea for me to invite a man anywhere, you know? Would be pretty awkward all around."
- "Mack was smiling. Right, she was joking. Or being cute. No. She wasn't being cute. None of this was cute."
- " I think you have a story to tell, whether or not you agree. And there's more to you than volleyball. You're a great poet. You love and respect nature."
- "Then she winked at me. Mackenzie West winked at me."
- “But you shared your poems with me."... "It's different with you."
- "Are you calling me your friend now?".... "I'd like to, yeah."
- “There was a poetry reading at the Strand. It made me think of you.".... "You thought about me on your fancy New York trip?"
- "You haven't peed since you got here?"..... "I didn't want to wake you."
- "I'm going to keep kissing you until we fall asleep, okay?" .... "Okay"
- "I wanted to preserve the sound of her laugh in a music box. I wanted to make a drink that gave me the feeling of her lips on mine. I wanted a blanket that secured me like her arms. I wanted her."
- "I kind of love her. It's infuriating."
- "And just like that, I was going to get my girl.
Or humiliate myself trying."
-" We'd had victories and many, many failures. But if I knew anything for sure, it was that Operation Heart Eyes would go down as our greatest success."