“I know it‘s not easy,” he whispers, his breath warm as his lips touch my ear. “But we have to push through.” He picks up one of my curls and twists it around his finger, wrapping and unwrapping. “Every morning I think this will be it, the day I get sick. The day the handlers will flag me, take me. And I don‘t want to get out of bed. But I do. Because I can‘t leave you here alone.”
#suzanneyoung #theptogram #sloane&james

Ops i read it again!!
#waitingfortheadjustment #suzanneyoung #theprogram

I finished reading #askingforit, and i found it to be a great novel with highly relevant topical issues!
The words used by #LouiseONeill and the story itself hit me so hard, it was like a punch in my stomach! The first person narrator really put me in touch with the deepest thoughts and feelings of the protagonist. I was dragged into Emma's world by what became a rough stream of consciousness. The end though...sadly realistic!

“My parents are insistent I go to the therapist every week. They seem to think that it keeps the problem contained in some way, that it stops it from touching them, their lives. What is ‘it‘? the therapist asks me. Use your words. It is nothingness. It is a desire to sleep forever. My parents are afraid that if I stop taking the tablets, if I stop going to see the therapist, I might start talking instead. I might start to remember.”

I really can't stop reading it! I think i'm going to love it as i did with "only ever yours"!
#askingforit #LouiseO'Neill