I can’t get over Kate and August :(
Both as separate characters I love and their relationship, whatever it was
*spoilers*
Kate the voice of my heart - “I spent a long time playing that game,” she said. “Pretending there were other versions of this world, where other versions of me got to live, and be happy, even if I didn’t, and you know what? It’s lonely as hell. Maybe there are other versions, other lives, but this one’s ours. It’s all we’ve got.” Preach it, my dear, preaacch.
My boy August, just trying to figure himself out. Who he wants to be vs who he needs to. Is there just no middle ground?
The both of them just... “influencing” each other, for good or for worse:
Kate Gallagher (Kate you cutie)
Jumping off roofs - ...he climbed through after her, expecting a fire escape of some sort and finding only a six-inch lip before a three-story fall. ... “Don’t tell me you’re afraid of heights”. “Not heights, just falling.” (TSS) ...August looked out past the Seam...He felt his sister’s gaze but he didn’t look back as his boot brushed the lip of the roof. “I’m on my way.” And then he stepped off the edge. (ODD)
“Stay with me.” And I swear to God, both times it happened, my heart just broke because their desperation was so palpable but it wasn’t enough
And this random one which i hope i didn’t read wrongly: “How did you get away?” “I don’t know, maybe I’m just resilient when it comes to having monsters in my head. I guess you were good practice.” - hey gurl but are you flirti-
Serious note though, I love these two babies so much the story I wouldn’t say destroyed me but its so real it’s one of those stories where you just have to put it down in between a reading sess just to CALM DOWN AND BREATHE
