Patrick Ness

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Inspired by Judy Blume’s Forever and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, this novel that Andrew Smith calls “beautiful, enchanting, [and] exquisitely written” is a new classic about teenage relationships, self-acceptance—and what happens when the walls we build start coming down.
Adam Thorn doesn’t know it yet, but today will change his life.
Between his religious family, a deeply unpleasant ultimatum from his boss, and his own unrequited love for his sort-of ex, Enzo, it seems as though Adam’s life is falling apart.  At least he has two people to keep him sane: his new boyfriend (he does love Linus, doesn’t he?) and his best friend, Angela.
But all day long, old memories and new heartaches come crashing together, throwing Adam’s life into chaos. The bindings of his world are coming untied one by one; yet in spite of everything he has to let go, he may also find freedom in the release.

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Monster Calls comes a raw, darkly funny, and deeply affecting story about the courage it takes to live your truth.
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171 printed pages
Publication year
2017
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  • Jodi Clarkeshared an impression4 years ago
    🔮Hidden Depths
    🎯Worthwhile

  • Natalie Haleshared an impression6 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    🔮Hidden Depths
    🌴Beach Bag Book

Quotes

  • Jodi Clarkehas quoted4 years ago
    My point: why do you have to call yourself anything? Because, if you don’t, freedom. Because, self-actualization. Because, fluidity and not calcifying into what that label will make you.”

    “How about, because having an identity can be just as powerful as actualizing my fluidity?”

    “But are you sure you only like boys? Why not keep your options open?”

    “Because my entire upbringing has told me there was only one way to be. That any other way is wrong. A deviation from their certainty.”

    “All the more reason to–”

    “I’m not finished. When I realized how things were, when I said to myself that I am not this thing I’ve been told I have to be, that I am this other thing instead, then Jesus, Ange, the label didn’t feel like a prison, it felt like a whole new freaking map, one that was my own, and now I can take any journey I want to take and it’s possible I might even find a home there. It’s not a reduction. It’s a key.”
  • RBhas quoted4 years ago
    “Is it not a shame,” she says, “that we must wait until the end of the world for all boundaries to fall?”
  • RBhas quoted4 years ago
    “I’ve committed my life to this. I’m not perfect, bro, far from it, but I know that love can be perfect. I just . . . I want you to know that I know I’ve been doing what they’ve been doing. For too long. I’ve put conditions on you. I’ve looked at you with pity.”

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