英语读书笔记-Book Lovers Day 09
Part 1
- He might as well be standing under a movie-theater marquee advertising THE OUT-OF-TOWNER with an arrow pointed straight at his peppery hair.
- Considering how short, not mention asinine, my message was, he takes a surprisingly long time to reply.
- I nearly drop my phone in my frenzy to open the next message.
- When my boss is having a rocky day.
- It would be unethical to share the manuscript outside the agency.
- But the author actually included a link to his website, where a handful of self-published novellas are available for purchase.
- If my professionalism is a gel manicure, then Charlie is apparently the industrial-grade acetone capable of burning right through it.
- I am famished.
- We’re sitting at the rough-hewn wooden table in the cottage, devouring the breadsticks and salads we ordered from Antonio’s Pizza.
- I nod and stab a surprisingly juicy tomato in the salad, popping it into my mouth.
- I think that’s the one possibility we can rule out.
Part 2
- You think forty minutes is enough to make up for the three weeks of Bea crawling into bed with us after a nightmare
- I wince.
- You can’t sleep next to them without waking drenched in sweat, with a tiny, adorable foot digging into your rib cage.
- I feel a spark of relief right then. Because the change in Libby-- the fatigue, the strange, intangible distance -----suddenly makes sense.
- One bathroom, for a family of five, is my idea of purgatory.
- She used to allow herself one night to lean into that feeling.
- That’s how I wound up with Nora Katharine Stephens.
- The “Baby” part being after the leopard in Bringing Up Baby.
- I’m such a softy.
- They taught me that heartbreak, like most things, was a solvable puzzle.
- Weeding out the assholes.
- She was saddled with kids when she was little more than one herself.
- I expected my sister to fall in love a dozen times over be swept off her feet over and over again for decades.
- I, meanwhile, had approximately on romantic bone in my body, and once it shattered and I pinned myself back together.