A review by aira_reads
Stay by Deb Caletti

3.0

It took me several years to finish this one but I’m glad overall that I picked it up, especially since it’s not something I usually read. The pacing is constant: not too fast or slow and there’s a general plot point, the whole thing feels realistic and given the subject matter, that’s a terrifying thought.

I wasn’t sure how she’d end it but okay.


Favourite quotes
When you're a person whose life has mostly brought good things, you believe in goodness. You believe things will work out. Even the worst things will work out. You believe in a happy ending.
But you are naive. The mostly good in your life has made you that way. You've spent so much time seeing the bright side that you don't even believe the other side exists.
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We like the thought of being held, until it's too tight. We like that certainty, until it means there is no way out.
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I felt as desperate to make him stay close, to keep him close, as he did - love, of that’s what you could call it, was bound up with some bottomless, clutching need
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We had a daily routine. Routine is cement for one people, coziness made solid, certainty building more certainty. For others, routine cracks surfaces with its weight, creating a boredom that presses down and down until something breaks
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Because a single word was just kindling on a fire, and contact like this was gasoline