"Love was more than a word, more than a mountain of the best and noblest intentions in the world. It was saying I’ll be here with you when it feels like nothing else is certain...Let the storm come, because I’ll never stop holding your hand."

-Julie Murphy & Sierra Simone, A Merry Little Meet Cute

"Love was more than a word, more than a mountain of the best and noblest intentions in the world. It was saying I’ll be here with you when it feels like nothing else is certain...Let the storm come, because I’ll never stop holding your hand."

-Julie Murphy & Sierra Simone, A Merry Little Meet Cute

November reading summary
Finally I can unblock the murderbot spoilers tag on Tumblr. What do you MEAN I have to wait til May for the next one!!
Scared Sexy series has been delightful & getting 3 new Caitlin Starling books in one year makes me feel hashtag blessed. Late thanksgiving post I guess

"I tried to blend in, but it's so exhausting carving off bits of yourself so people around you will be more comfortable."

-Katee Robert, Beautiful Nightmare

I haven't attempted NaNo since 2021. I love & live for collaborative storytelling, but it's been nice to indulge in something that's by and for me first. feels like those muscles atrophied in the past four years. this NaNo felt like healing

"I had a moment of hope. Maybe these other humans were imaginary. Humans are great at imagining stuff. That’s why their media is so good."

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The MurderBot Diaries #7)

😍😍😍😍😍😍

Cinematic parallels

"I could never be near you and not know exactly what you are to me."

-Ali Hazelwood, Hot For Slayer

"Ruling over a populace as a god and feasting on foolish travelers did not prepare you on how to properly soothe a potential mate. Why was dating so difficult?"

-Kimberly Lemming, My Boyfriends Are All Monsters

🤔

"I know what I sounded like. The mind seeks to create a narrative. It keeps trying to exert control over an environment. The only alternative is a damaged passivity, learned helplessness keeping you stuck while the shock comes, again and again."

-Caitlin Starling, The Graceview Patient

The tech sector making it okay to wear jeans to work for traditional white collar jobs is probably the only truly great thing they have produced in the last 10 years.

Actually. Just realized there were 37 returns on "heartbeat" (singular) for the entire trilogy. So that's like 12 times per book. Mabe it was an editorial mandate and Andor's "No more than 12" is actually a reference to that

Look we gotta give him credit for paring it down from "a handful of heartbeats" in the first half of the book to just "a pair" for most of the rest.
Tho he does put in one more "handful" near the end. As a treat