despite everything, it’s still you

Evan, a version of him being friends with Connor, Zoe, Alana, and Jared

some books i read recently → great big beautiful life by emily henry

I shrug and sip on my coffee. “You think I’m being ridiculous,” I say, half statement, half question. “I think you live in a world that’s more interesting than the one most people live in,” he says, and just as my heart starts to sink with disappointment, with a kind of loneliness, he adds, “and I wish I could live in it too.” I feel myself beaming. “I’ll take you sometime.” “I’d like that,” he says.

some books i read recently → book lovers by emily henry

Maybe love shouldn’t be built on a foundation of compromises, but maybe it can’t exist without them either. Not the kind that forces two people into shapes they don’t fit in, but the kind that loosens their grips, always leaves room to grow. Compromises that say, there will be a you-shaped space in my heart, and if your shape changes, I will adapt. 

some books i read recently → people we meet on vacation by emily henry

“You asked me who I was, and—it was like the answer came out of nowhere. Sometimes it feels like I didn’t even exist before that. Like you invented me.”