A review by enteka
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

she's just like me frfr and somehow it's such a kind book

I remember feeling sixteen and feeling eleven. I remember thinking, how could i be a teenager I remember finishing high school and thinking, am I grown now? Is this what it feels like? I feel the same as I did before. 

MAN

I am a life force contained in the deformed bodyof a baby. Of course I'm a fraud. The fact that I'm able to carry myself through life without being crushed beneath the psychological weight of being alive proves that I'm a con artist. Aren't we all con artists?

MAN

I liked to daydream about what I might do, where I might go, and what might happen to me. I don't do that anymore. I can't see myself older. 

MAN

The image of Eleanor committing something I said offhand to her memory, spending her money, and gifting me this makes me feel, for some reason, heartbroken. [...] I find it so bizarre that I occupy space, and that I am seen by other people. I feel like I am falling through space and Eleanor just thew me a rose. It's such a sweet, pointless gesture. It would be less devastating to fall through space alone, without someone else falling next to me. Whenever someone does something nice for me, I feel intensely aware of how strange and sad it is to know someone.

MAN

Everything matters so much and so little; it is disgusting.