“There’s this word in Japanese: tsundoku,” Neil says suddenly. “It’s my favorite word in any language.”“What does it mean?”He grins. “It means acquiring more books than you could ever realistically read.”
―
Rachel Lynn Solomon,
Today Tonight Tomorrow
“Crush’ is too weak a word to describe how I feel. It doesn’t do you justice, but maybe it works for me. I am the one who is crushed. I’m crushed that we have only ever regarded each other as enemies. I’m crushed when the day ends and I haven’t said anything to you that isn’t cloaked in five layers of sarcasm.” ― Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow
“Maybe that’s the definition of nostalgia: getting sappy about things that are supposed to be insignificant.” ― Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow
“Maybe it's the whole concept of a guilty pleasure," Neil says gently. "Why should we feel guilty about something that brings us - pleasure?” ― Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow
“I’ve given this boy the messiest parts of me, and he’s done nothing but convince me he’ll be careful with them.” ― Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow
“The thing about losing someone is that it doesn’t happen just once. It happens every time you do something great you wish they could see, every time you’re stuck and you need advice. Every time you fail. It erodes your sense of normal, and what grows back is decidedly not normal, and yet you still have to figure out how to trudge forward.” ― Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk
“While I love romance, I’ve never believed in the concept of soul mates, which has always seemed a little like men’s rights activism: not a real thing. Love isn’t immediate or automatic; it takes effort and time and patience. The truth of it was that I’d probably never have the kind of luck with love the women who live in fictional seaside towns do. But sometimes I get this strange feeling, an ache not for something I miss, but for something I’ve never known.” ― Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow
“My favourite books got happily-ever-afters— why couldn’t I?” ― Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow
“When he grins, it’s bright enough to light up the night sky. It’s kind of beautiful.” ― Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow
“The love that I wanted so desperately: this isn’t what I thought it would feel like. It’s made me dizzy and it’s grounded me. It’s made me laugh when nothing is funny. It shimmers and it sparks, but it can be comfortable, too, a sleepy smile and a soft touch and a quiet, steady breath. Of course this boy—my rival, my alarm clock, my unexpected ally—is at the center of it. And somehow, it’s even better than I imagined.” ― Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow
“Boy bands, fan fiction, soap operas, reality TV, most shows and movies with female main characters . . . We’re still so rarely front and center, even rarer when you consider race and sexuality, and then when we do get something that’s just for us, we’re made to feel bad for liking it. We can’t win.” ― Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow
“How do you tell the person you’ve spent four years trying to destroy that you have a crush on them?” ― Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow
“I’m in love with you. You are the most interesting person I know, and I’ve never been able to talk to anyone the way I can talk to you. I’ve devoted the past four years to leaving Seattle, but you...You are the best thing about this city. You are going to be the hardest to leave. I love you so much.” ― Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow
“Today isn’t my epilogue with Neil—it’s a beginning. I’ll leave the happily-ever-afters in the books.” ― Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow
“Neil McNair has become my alarm clock, if alarm clocks had freckles and knew all your insecurities.” ― Rachel Lynn Solomon , Today Tonight Tomorrow
“So often, I'm trapped between the pain of remembering and the fear of forgetting.” ― Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk
“I could wake up on the same day a thousand times, and every single one would be different because of you. Every single one would be life-changing. Because of you.” ― Rachel Lynn Solomon, See You Yesterday
“I guess it’s like, in my head, my writing can be as great as I want it to be. But as soon as I declare I’m a writer, I’ll have something to prove. It’s hard to admit that you think you’re good at something creative. And then it’s so much worse for women. We’re told to shrug off compliments, to scoff when someone tells us we’re good at something. We shrink ourselves, convincing ourselves what we’re creating doesn’t actually matter.” ― Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow
“But sometimes I get this strange feeling, an ache not for something I miss, but for something I've never known" -Rowan” ― Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow
“Crush’ is too weak a word to describe how I feel. It doesn’t do you justice, but maybe it works for me. I am the one who is crushed. I’m crushed that we have only ever regarded each other as enemies. I’m crushed when the day ends and I haven’t said anything to you that isn’t cloaked in five layers of sarcasm.” ― Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow
“Maybe that’s the definition of nostalgia: getting sappy about things that are supposed to be insignificant.” ― Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow
“Maybe it's the whole concept of a guilty pleasure," Neil says gently. "Why should we feel guilty about something that brings us - pleasure?” ― Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow
“I’ve given this boy the messiest parts of me, and he’s done nothing but convince me he’ll be careful with them.” ― Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow
“The thing about losing someone is that it doesn’t happen just once. It happens every time you do something great you wish they could see, every time you’re stuck and you need advice. Every time you fail. It erodes your sense of normal, and what grows back is decidedly not normal, and yet you still have to figure out how to trudge forward.” ― Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk
“While I love romance, I’ve never believed in the concept of soul mates, which has always seemed a little like men’s rights activism: not a real thing. Love isn’t immediate or automatic; it takes effort and time and patience. The truth of it was that I’d probably never have the kind of luck with love the women who live in fictional seaside towns do. But sometimes I get this strange feeling, an ache not for something I miss, but for something I’ve never known.” ― Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow
“My favourite books got happily-ever-afters— why couldn’t I?” ― Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow
“When he grins, it’s bright enough to light up the night sky. It’s kind of beautiful.” ― Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow
“The love that I wanted so desperately: this isn’t what I thought it would feel like. It’s made me dizzy and it’s grounded me. It’s made me laugh when nothing is funny. It shimmers and it sparks, but it can be comfortable, too, a sleepy smile and a soft touch and a quiet, steady breath. Of course this boy—my rival, my alarm clock, my unexpected ally—is at the center of it. And somehow, it’s even better than I imagined.” ― Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow
“Boy bands, fan fiction, soap operas, reality TV, most shows and movies with female main characters . . . We’re still so rarely front and center, even rarer when you consider race and sexuality, and then when we do get something that’s just for us, we’re made to feel bad for liking it. We can’t win.” ― Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow
“How do you tell the person you’ve spent four years trying to destroy that you have a crush on them?” ― Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow
“I’m in love with you. You are the most interesting person I know, and I’ve never been able to talk to anyone the way I can talk to you. I’ve devoted the past four years to leaving Seattle, but you...You are the best thing about this city. You are going to be the hardest to leave. I love you so much.” ― Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow
“Today isn’t my epilogue with Neil—it’s a beginning. I’ll leave the happily-ever-afters in the books.” ― Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow
“Neil McNair has become my alarm clock, if alarm clocks had freckles and knew all your insecurities.” ― Rachel Lynn Solomon , Today Tonight Tomorrow
“So often, I'm trapped between the pain of remembering and the fear of forgetting.” ― Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk
“I could wake up on the same day a thousand times, and every single one would be different because of you. Every single one would be life-changing. Because of you.” ― Rachel Lynn Solomon, See You Yesterday
“I guess it’s like, in my head, my writing can be as great as I want it to be. But as soon as I declare I’m a writer, I’ll have something to prove. It’s hard to admit that you think you’re good at something creative. And then it’s so much worse for women. We’re told to shrug off compliments, to scoff when someone tells us we’re good at something. We shrink ourselves, convincing ourselves what we’re creating doesn’t actually matter.” ― Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow
“But sometimes I get this strange feeling, an ache not for something I miss, but for something I've never known" -Rowan” ― Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow
