A review by roaze
Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier

dark emotional funny reflective sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I’ll get back to this after I’m done crying…. 
~A few days later~
Okay done crying here is a bunch of quotes and lines that I liked from the book or felt represented it pretty well.

“I started to picture the world without me in it“ -page 115.

“I added nothing - I had no hopes, no real tangible dreams that would make any lasting impact. If I was gone. Worst case scenario some pizzas wouldn’t be delivered on time. -page 116.

“You don’t have to be sorry. He didn’t die sad.
He died stupid.“-page 120.

“My heads a mess everywhere I go, I seem to find a way to trap myself. Most days, I can ignore it, but like anything really open and forgotten, it begins to rot. There are just too many thoughts, memories. I can’t look at anything and not think of something else.” -page 127.

“Jenny was more a person to me than mum ever had been” -page 136.

*Possible spoilers ahead*


“I love you,” he said “I love you so much and I’m so mad at you and I can’t even tell you how mad I am at you. The other day I woke up and went into our bathroom. The water was all over the floor, you’d left the sink running all night. I went back into the room, ready to fight about it, wanting to fight about it, but when I open the door you were just sitting up in bed, looking out the window. I stood in the doorway for a full five minutes, and you didn’t even turn your head.”
He looked up at me, tears dripping off his cheeks, and I wished he had hit me.
“What do you do in the shed in the backyard every night?”
Hit me, I can’t have this conversation, hit me, please, anything other than this.” -Page 160 to 161.

“Even if I never picked up the phone and heard her voice on the other end, I would’ve found something to lose myself in-If you were pushed off a cliff, you’d grab hold of anything resembling safety.“ - page 189.
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