Celia Laskey

A Novel

So Happy for You

Ellie 

“Self, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

“Everyone has their ways of keeping control. For you, it’s your opinions. For me, it was climbing the ladder, as you call it. Marriage, house, kids.”

“Every movie culminates in a kiss and a woman deciding it didn’t matter that the man lied to her. Why didn’t I see how messed up that was at the time?”

“Straight women saying they wished they were a lesbian was one of my number-one triggers—it made being gay seem like a fallback choice instead of an inherent part of someone’s identity, it stereotyped lesbian relationships as uncomplicated, and the women who said it to me were never actually open to the idea of sleeping with another woman.”

“I had asked Alonzo why I constantly dreamed of someone who was no longer in my life, and he had said, “Maybe it’s your way of keeping her in your life.””

“I know people think I’m just a slut or whatever, but what if a ‘slut’ is just a woman who’s really committed to finding lasting love? Who hasn’t given up on the idea that her person is out there even though sometimes giving up would seem like the very logical thing to do? So she dates a lot and tests out the sexual chemistry even though ninety-seven percent of guys end up being jerks who don’t understand the clitoris, but she wouldn’t know that if she didn’t go on the dates and try.”

“I know what my life is like, since I lost you. It’s like a little pool, left by the tide, drying from the outside.”

“We had both been living in our own subjective reality, with our own subjective truth. Maybe all those years when I thought we were thinking the same thing, we weren’t at all.”

“Anger is usually an inefficient emotion.”

“You know, people use that word like an excuse. ‘But we’re family!’ I don’t care if we share blood. I care how you treat me.”

“The best things in life are the people you love, the places you’ve seen, and the memories you make along the way.”

“It feels morally irresponsible to just let someone have a prejudiced point of view.”

““Ah, so you see your opinions as an extension of yourself?” “Doesn’t everyone?” I asked. “What are we, other than our opinions?” He shrugged. “Some might say we’re defined by our thoughts, or our actions, or our social role.””

“Recognising our own privilege is really important because it helps us take that first step toward dismantling oppression.”

“It was strange to me that people correlated marriage with romance, when a state-sanctioned partnership seemed like the least romantic kind. People who didn’t get married but stayed together simply because they wanted to always seemed so much happier.”

““Marriageability rating,” abbreviated to MR, on a scale of zero to one hundred. A man’s MR was determined by his age, height, looks, wealth, IQ, emotional intelligence, sexual capacity (don’t ask me how they determined this), and willingness to make a long-term commitment. Women were rated by their age, looks, height, bra cup size, weight, academic degrees, personality, and family background. Women who hadn’t married by twenty-seven were labeled “leftovers,” and women who were still single at thirty-five were “rotten.” These labels appeared right next to their profile picture. Men who hadn’t married by a certain age weren’t called anything at all.”

“We kind of started to resent each other. But neither of us could seem to let the friendship go.”

Sarah Pino

4 Aug (completed)
i gobbled this up i think especially because it was wedding seasons and my friends were getting married or engaged back to back.

interesting premise and i just rode along easily. i must say though that portions of this book demands you to throw disbelief out of the window. but meh i was here for it. 

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i just want to throw everything in my tbr and read this

Alexa M

Latitude Tamarind

This book is WILD, and intense and sure is a RIDE. It’s very clearly about how intense The Wedding Industry is, with more emphasis placed on The Wedding Itself than on, you know, marriage. Some of the things that happen in this book kind of border on the surreal, and some things are so funny that you can’t stop laughing but afterwards you kind of go, “that wasn’t funny, that was horrific and a nightmare??”. Kind of a nightmare exhausting book! I really…. recommend it? But I do think you should read up a little on this book and kind of know what you’re getting into, which I don’t usually recommend. And dedicate Some Time to it. Four stars.

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