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(If it isn’t obvious, I couldn’t really pick three quotes lol).

“I’m scared I might be bi. Sexual,” he clarifies, like someone might assume he meant bilingual.

I think I finally found my princess, Mom. He’s six and a half feet tall, grumpy as hell, and talks dirty as sin.

I’ve read the ebook once and listened to the audiobook twice by now, and it really is a story I don’t think I’ll get tired of. I love it just as much every reread, and it makes me just as emotional every time as well, even when I know it’s coming. I think that’s a good indicator for some truly amazing writing. If you’ve read anything by Riley, you know he can write his socks off. This was also the first book I ever read by the author, and it’s still my favorite. It’s hard to review it without just saying ‘I love it’ ten different ways.

I’ve been called a lot of words. Funny. Cute. Stupid. Annoying. Hopeless. He keeps giving me new ones I’ve never had before. Bi. Good. I can’t stop playing them over and over in my head. I know deep in my chest that they don’t belong to me. I won’t get to keep them once I walk out of this bathroom door. But I’ll remember them for as long as I remember him.

The characters and their journeys/development is freaking beautiful in this book. Gray especially. That man is just hurting and very alone. Jonah showing up doesn’t automatically fix that, but he slowly but surely learns that there’s more to life than guilt and work. Jonah is a fucking ray of sunshine that is impossible to resist, and everyone is drawn to his light. It can be difficult to see how (seemingly) happy and sunshine-y people can be hurting too, but Jonah is carrying a massive weight on his shoulders, trying to make his parents proud, prove himself capable as a disabled man, *and* find his way through a sexual awakening (he is extremely capable btw, but tries twice as hard to prove it). To say their journeys aren’t easy is probably an understatement, but man it’s such a beautiful story. I haven’t read Teach Me to Sin yet, but I imagine this book will stay my favorite in the series. There’s just something incredibly special about these characters to me.

“The socially acceptable answer is three children. The honest one is five, but that’s when you scare guys off.” He expects me to be surprised that the man who knows the whole My Little Pony theme song by heart wants to be a dad. He really can be clueless sometimes.

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