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Dec 16, 2022 - Words on a Page

by the way shameless promotion but Read This Book! it's great :3

One of the benefits of being an artist is that you spend so much time watching people, looking not just at all the shades and contours of their faces, but into their souls. It gives you an almost uncanny insight. You gained, particularly when you got to Julian's age, the ability to read people and know how they were going to react.

— Clare Pooley, The Authenticity Project

Perhaps the compulsion to fill every inch of space was because it made him feel less alone.

Clare Pooley

“But sometimes when you put two very different people together, a kind of magic, an alchemy, occurs. Bea said I was like eggs and sugar, and she was flour and butter, and when you mixed us together, we were more than just the combination of our ingredients, we were the whole damn cake.”

— Clare Pooley, Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting

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It’s not empty, dear heart! It’s LIGHT. That ring was weighing you down! It wasn’t a declaration of love, it was a symbol of OWNERSHIP.

- The People On Platform 5

Title: The Sober Diaries | Author: Clare Pooley | Publisher: Coronet (2017)

Not my genre but it looks so nice and cozy. "People on Platform 5" by Clare Pooley

– Clare Pooley, The Authenticity Project

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Nov 02, 2022 - Currently Reading

Nobody ever talks to strangers on the train. It's a rule. But what would happen if they did?

The Authenticity Project

Clare Pooley

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ (5/5)

Clare Pooley writes books for lonely people. each time i’ve read one of her books (so twice), i’ve found myself yearning for the friendships found in the book. sure, they’re twisted and messy and sometimes the relationships between people suck. but also, they all find each other and work it out in the end. i’m a pooley fan for life, both this and rules for commuting felt like they poked at a little hole in my life i didn’t know was there. that desire to find a group of strangers that i just….fit with.

also! i loved the little twist this book took, though i never felt the same about the character afterwards (so vague but i don’t want to spoil anything!! unless you’re like roy from the it crowd and even knowing there’s a twist is devastating information)

She kissed him. It was a kiss that said much more than good-bye. It said sorry, and thank you, and I very nearly love you. But not quite. And she didn't want to live with not quite.

— Clare Pooley, The Authenticity Project