A review by julienbakerstan69
Briefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens
5.0
“what a thing it is, to fall in love, to want to know everything there is to know about a person and yet, at the same time, to find the smallest detail—a blade of loose skin peeling from the lowest corner of the fingernail—entirely overwhelming, too lovely to bear.”
“what were the chances that, aged eighteen and eating apricot ice cream on a drizzly evening in paris, she would look up and see the man she was going to marry? one hundred percent, she thinks. it seemed to her that she and casimir had known each other all along, that the time she spent yearning and lusting after other people was simply rehearsal. she thinks of herself as an animal following a desire line through a meadow, unwittingly guided forwards.”
“sometimes, she thinks, you just know that someone has something to do with you.”
“what were the chances that, aged eighteen and eating apricot ice cream on a drizzly evening in paris, she would look up and see the man she was going to marry? one hundred percent, she thinks. it seemed to her that she and casimir had known each other all along, that the time she spent yearning and lusting after other people was simply rehearsal. she thinks of herself as an animal following a desire line through a meadow, unwittingly guided forwards.”
“sometimes, she thinks, you just know that someone has something to do with you.”