Emily Henry

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ∙ A shimmering, joyful novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024 Named a Must-Read Book of 2024 by TIME ∙ NPR ∙ ELLE ∙ Parade ∙ Woman’s World and more! Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it…right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra. Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra’s ex, Miles Nowak. Scruffy and chaotic—with a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love ballads—Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she’s either FBI or in witness protection. The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan. If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together, well, who could blame them? But it’s all just for show, of course, because there’s no way Daphne would actually start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancée’s ex . . . right?

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All those moments throughout the days, weeks, months that don't get marked on calendars with hand-drawn stars or little stickers. Those are the moments that make a life. Not grand gestures, but mundane details that, over time, accumulate until you have a home, instead of a house. The things that matter. The things I can't stop longing for.

Emma Hak-Kovacs

I see him laugh but can't hear it, and I feel robbed of the sound.

Sophia

The same universe that dispassionately takes things away can bring you things you weren't imaginative enough to dream up.

Paige Leitner

"It's a library, Daphne. If you can't be human here, where can you?"

Being, even as a child, bowled over by how something imaginary could become real, could wring every emotion from me or make me homesick for places I'd never been.

Annika McClintock

Life isn’t a competition and neither is love, but I’m still the loser 

Life, I’d learned, is a revolving door. Most things that come into it only stay awhile. 

"Something better always comes along. That's my curse."

"I don't want to play that game anymore," I say. "I don't want you to say things you don't mean and do things you don't want to do. It's confusing."

"I just think," I say to Miles, "you like people almost as much as they like you. And it makes being around you feel likeike standing in sunlight." His mouth softens. Briefly, he studies the space between our feet. "You feel like sunlight too."

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