King, Lily. 2025. Heart the Lover. First edition. Grove Press.

Notes

In-text annotations

"No. Love is crushing. Love is something you let yourself feel at your own peril, despite your better sense.’" (Page 140)

"True. It’s all those things,’ I said. ‘But where would we be if we didn’t feel it? I think it’s the only form of hope we have. For our survival, I mean. What good is any other virtue without love?" (Page 140)

"Maybe it’s true what the philosopher said, that the past and the future don’t exist, that this is the only moment we ever have, this moment right now and this moment and this‘Casey,’ Silas says in my ear, half asleep, pulling me closer, reading my mind. ‘You’re here.’" (Page 181)