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Best Laid Plans (Garnet Run, #2) QUOTES

Best Laid Plans (Garnet Run, #2) QUOTES

1 " -Wouldn’t everyone like to only do things they enjoy if they could?
-Uh, no. Only children, the ultrarich, and total narcissists think doing only what you want is any kind of life. The rest of us have, like, ambitions and empathy and obligations to other living things. "

― Roan Parrish , Best Laid Plans (Garnet Run, #2)

2 " As long as they’re not hurting you or doing something really shady, you just have to accept that people are all different and that whatever shit your roommate does that you think is weird, you probably do things that are totally normal to you that they think are just as weird. [...] trying to get people to change stuff that’s about them is pointless. All you can do is have clear boundaries about stuff that’s actually a problem for you. Other than that, she’s just being herself. [...] So learn from my many, many roommate situations. Annoyance: waste of energy. Trying to change shit that has nothing to do with you: waste of time. You: just as annoying as everyone else. "

― Roan Parrish , Best Laid Plans (Garnet Run, #2)

3 " Rye corrected himself. “I can absolutely imagine you choosing the desires of an imaginary future partner over your own.”

It stung, the accuracy of that statement, delivered so gently, and with Rye’s hand on his cheek. As if Rye saw the truth of his home’s yearning—its nearly silent, beige-and-white cry into the darkness: Love me. I won’t assert myself. I am made of space for you. I have emptied myself of any identifiable desires so that yours may flourish. "

― Roan Parrish , Best Laid Plans (Garnet Run, #2)

4 " Charlie hadn’t thought it was possible for love to double, but he felt it, in his gut. And lo and behold, he had space for it. He had all the space in the world for loving Rye. "

― Roan Parrish , Best Laid Plans (Garnet Run, #2)

5 " He’d never thought of sex as anything but physical pleasure, or sometimes, with certain people, as an expression of intimacy. The depth of Charlie’s feeling was moving. It was...humbling. It said: I am letting you affect me. I am letting you into the parts of me that I have never shared with anyone—not even myself. "

― Roan Parrish , Best Laid Plans (Garnet Run, #2)

6 " Before, when he lived with his parents, even though he’d had his own room, it hadn’t felt like home either. He’d still contorted himself—only those had been psychic contortions. The kind that made you smaller and smaller until you threatened to disappear if you didn’t get out. So he had. "

― Roan Parrish , Best Laid Plans (Garnet Run, #2)