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Wait for It by Mariana Zapata
5.0

02/2023 Re-reading: Still my fav standalone ever.



02/2022: Houve um tempo em que eu achava que o meu livro favorito não deveria ser um romance. Devia ser qualquer livro com reflexões e pensamentos cabeçudos que mudou a minha vida.
Hoje, depois de ler este livro, quero gritar para toda a gente que este SIM é o meu favorito da vida, nunca houve nenhum livro como este que eu achasse perfeito do início ao fim e que não me apetecesse mudar uma única coisa.
Quando a Diana diz que o Lou é o sol da vida dela e que o Josh a lua e as estrelas, fiquei rendida e, talvez apenas, por também eu ter o meu Lou e o meu Josh na minha vida e entender cada pequenina coisa que ela falava tenha gostado tanto. Ou talvez não.
Ser tia é do caraças e não podia encontrar nunca livro que descrevesse melhor o que é.

“There was a lot of things about love that you could only learn after you’d faced the real kind. The best kind wasn’t this soft, sweet thing of hearts and picnics. It wasn’t flowery and divine. Real love was gritty. The real kind of love never quit. Someone who loved you would do what’s best for you; they’d stand up for you and sacrifice. Someone who loved you would face any inconvenience willingly. You didn’t know what love was until someone was willing to give up what they loved the most for you. But it was also never letting them make that choice, either.”

“While Louie might be the sun, Josh was the moon and the stars. He was my gravity, my tide, my ride or die. He was more like my little brother than my nephew, and in some ways, we had grown up together. I had loved him from the moment I laid eyes on him. Loved him from the moment I knew he was a spark of life, and I was going to love him every day of my life.”