Charlie also sees nothing but darkness outside her windows. Charlie also has a contentious call with her disapproving mother, who demands that Charlie return a necklace that belonged to Charlie’s dead grandmother.Ĭharlie discovers she is inexplicably trapped inside her apartment when the front door won’t open. Over the phone, Charlie’s drunken friend Thea warns that Charlie’s relationship with Simone is unhealthily toxic. (Yes I had to write another ask just to add that, it’s very important) you’re wonderful.Despite arguments about being smothering in addition to suspicions of infidelity, Charlie Crane anxiously awaits her girlfriend Simone’s return to their Brooklyn apartment following Simone’s trip to Philadelphia. I hope you stay well and I look forward to reading everything else you will generously share with us. the point is I’m really grateful to you for reading it, because it really does mean so much. I mean this book definitely contains so much of myself that I think creating it is what helped me cast out some of the demons? I don’t know. oh gosh, thank you so much, that’s really so nice of you to say. I am just so glad that you found a way to live with your mood disorder without letting it destroy you and that your family supports you and also that you found an agent, you completely deserve it. I remember that you said your mom cried when she read the book and since I’m also very Soft I expected that I’d cry too lol, but I didn’t cry while reading the book (I did get very emotional though), instead I teared up a bit when I read the acknowledgements. I feel like this is such an important takeaway, and very true to the spirit of the book. Life is just a sequence of good moments and bad moments and like you said in today'a video, we have to always keep in mind that the bad ones will not last forever. I don’t think happiness doesn’t exist at all, but I also don’t think it’s a goal we can reach because there’s no being “happy ever after”, like only happy for the rest of your life. One more thing I liked, because I agree : when Aldo says that happiness might be an invention, an impossible goal that we’ll never reach. I just thought that would be worth mentioning (and also I do love both these lines, so thank you for calling them out!) I would have liked to tell you what my favorite lines were but they were more like favorite paragraphs, favorite pages (I marked a lot of them !) so it would be even longer than this already is ! But there are two lines that I especially loved : “Regan, he thought, Regan, this night is stolen, I want grand larceny and this is petty theft.” “ If this is what it is to burn, he thought, then I will be worth more as scattered ash than any of my unscathed pieces.”this second line is one of the new lines, written last month when I was editing the manuscript as opposed to written in december 2018 with the rest of the book (I remember it because the line it replaced was nonsensical I had to ask myself what I’d even meant), whereas the other line you mentioned was one of the originals from the first draft. I wrote that scene and then I knew the rest of the book would feel like letting out a breath, which it ultimately was
there’s a moment like that in every book, I’d say, but this one was particularly identifiable. that church scene was the one where I realized as I was writing that something was Happening… it’s the scene where I was no longer plodding along to build something, because the characters were starting to write the story themselves. Also I love the not-classic way that you wrote dialogues sometimes (in part four mostly), it gives them a really good flow and I enjoy it very much. That whole scene was so well written, I was entranced the whole time.
“Don’t hold hands with anyone ever again.” It sounds ordinary but that line really got to me because I understood exactly what it is to feel like this. I’m going to reply to this with my commentary interwoven because that’s easier, but absolutely never apologize for sending me thoughts!! there is no such thing as too long, and I’m just very, very glad it moved you to these lengths. (This is going to be at least three more asks long,sorry, tell me if next time I should just send it via private message) The part of me that loves love stories was also overjoyed. The part of me that loves science and having philosophical discussions about life and time was overjoyed. The best thing about it is that it's so much more than a love story. Just finished Alone with you in the ether and I know you like to know our thoughts about it but this will be way too long.
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