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Xanax...

Elena trying to stop jax to take anxiety pills. So she puts several small notes in his pill bottle for him to read instead of choosing the pills. " * Save a xanax, buy a puppy. It will make you happier in the long run. I don't know why the ridiculous statement draws a laugh from me. Interested in seeing what else elena write, i grab another. * If i swap your xans for tic-tacs, would you notice? I grab the rest, barely hiding mu shit-eating grin as i unfold each one. * Hugs, not drugs. Seriously, this is your free hugs voucher. * If you skip the pills, i will offer you one activity of your choice. * One 'get out of gala free' coupon if you skip the pill. * Pills are so 80s. You are way too cool to be doing something so out of style. * Free movie night on me, dinner included, if you throw the pill away. * One free lesson of spanish dirty talk if you don't take the pill. I never expected something simple like this to put me at ease, Elena, not even present in the room, fills my chest with something warm. I want to change. Not because McCoy wants me to or because everyone keeps judging me. I want to change because someone who has every reason to walk away refuses to leave my side. And this is how i come to the realization that i need to save myself". - Wrecked (Lauren Asher) Xoxo, Ironically Witty!

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Happy Sunday

New Day, new week.. "If my thoughts were chaos, she was my anchor" -Twisted Lies (Ana Huang)

"Pretty words and pretty faces don't equal pretty souls." - Twisted Love ( Ana Huang) Xoxo, Ironically Witty!

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My Birthday is today! 💖💖

Not the last for me, but this is the one thing we all need to hear in life, whoever feels small, or unknowingly dislike themselves. Also something i wanted myself to remember on this day ( my birthday!) "Most people are too scared to ever put themselves in a position to be criticized. You shouldn't care what they think if they don't have the guts to do what you're doing. You have to remember that too. The only opinion that really matters is your own and other people you respect. Everyone is scared of something, and perfection isn't realistic. We are humans, nit robots', - All Rhodes Lead Here (Mariana Zapata) Xoxo, Ironically Witty!

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Price We Pay...

"I take a moment to peek at him. He looks peaceful as he sleeps, clutching onto a pillow. Something stirs within me. I want to help jax get out of his dark place. Not for a contract and definitely not for money. He acts lost and defeated, hiding behind pills and secrets. Instead of following my intuition warning me to give up and run away, i give in to the devil on my shoulder telling me to help him at any expense. But that's the thing about costs. None of us knows the price we're willing to pay to be someone's redemption". -Wrecked (Lauren Asher) Xoxo, Ironically Witty!

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SUNDAYYAYYYAYY!

WORDS *Blasphemy - speaking offensively. *Arsenal - collection of weapons and military equipment. *Harrumphed - clear the throat noisily, gumpily express dissatisfaction or disapproval. *Marred - spoiled. *Signet - seal used as a signature for official documents. *Ratcheted - to rise and fall. *Euphemism - indirect harsh/ blunt expression for something unpleasant and embarrassing. *Acquiesced - to accept something reluctantly, but without protest. *Encroach - to intrude on/ intrusion. *Coaxed - to persistently persuade. Xoxo, Ironically Witty!

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"Too much planning is a form of procrastination" -Twisted Lies (Ana Huang) Xoxo, Ironically Witty!

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New Happy Sunday!!

I'm literally writing this at 2am in the night but i feel so good for some unknown reason. And although i had plans to quote this certain book in the month of love "feb" but i was busy... here it goes. Email extract from "Red, White and Royal-blue" by Haplessly Romantic Heretic Prince Henry the Utterly Daft. "Should i tell you that when we are apart, your body comes back to me in dreams? That when i sleep, i see you, the dip of your waist, the freckle above your hip, and when i wake up in the morning, it feels like i've just been with you, the phantom touch of your hand on the back of my neck fresh and not imagined? That i can feel your skin against mine, and it makes every bone in my body ache? That, for a few moments, i can hold my breath and be back there with you, in a dream, in a thousand rooms, nowhere at all? I think perhaps Hamilton wrote it better in a letter to Eliza: You engross my thoughts too entirely to allow me to think of anything else, you not only employ my mind all day, but you intrude upon my sleep. I meet you in every dream, and when i wake i cannot close my eyes again for ruminating on your sweetness" - Red, White & Royal Blue (Casey McQuiston) Xoxo, Ironically Witty!

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H-S (Happy Sunday Guys!)

Two new ones here.... " That's the problem. I haven't wanted the things i used to want, the things i wanted when i made just about every big life decision i've made". - People We Meet On Vacation (Emily Henry) " Adult friendships took work and conscious effort to maintain, but the ones that stayed were the ones that mattered most". - Twisted Lies (Ana Huang) Xoxo, Ironically Witty!

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SUNDAY IS HERE!

WORDS *Vacillated - to be indecisive. *Capitulated - cease to resist an opponent. *Equestrian - horse rider. *Awry - out of the usual or normal behaviour. *Pummeled - criticize severely. *Stupor - state of near unconsciousness. *Benign - gentle and kind/ no harmful effect. *Mercurial - sudden or unpredictable change in mood and mind. *Chafed - make or become sore by rubbing against something. *Patronage - right to privileges. Xoxo, Ironically Witty!

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HAPPY SUNDAY!

QUOTE "The thing about humans. We are hard-wired for survival, and we take every opportunity to convince ourselves that our problems weren't bad as we thought they were. Hope and Denial. Two sides of the same coin. They keep us from falling into a well of despair even in the darkest of times". - Twisted Lies (Ana Huang) "The day people stopped thinking they could change someone who didn't want to be changed was the day fewer hearts got broken". -Twisted Lies (Ana Huang) Xoxo, Ironically Witty!

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Sunday is here again!

quote day! " We all live lies. Some are just better at disguising them. Others hide and never acknowledge them, instead flinching at shadows looming in the corners because they know what lurks there". - Collided (Lauren Asher) Xoxo, Ironically Witty!

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"If i'm being honest i have to tell you i still read fairy-tales and i like them the best of all." - Audrey Hepburn Xoxo, Ironically Witty!

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"I am a neurosurgeon. You work with flowers, Lily. Remember that before your lawyer does anything stupid to threaten my career. I pay for that fucking apartment you live in" - It Starts With Us ( Colleen Hoover) Xoxo, Ironically Witty!

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DIRTY AIR SERIES - LAUREN ASHER

Book Two : COLLIDED 🎨🖌🏁🏎📚

" @ To the Sophie Mitchells out there- Be different. Be genuine. Be you."



#Characters:

*SOPHIE MITCHELL (21 yr old) - A short girl who is as free- spirit as she can be, full of life and innocence. She describes herself " like a lemon starburst, sweet but packs a punch". She is also a girl with a lot of stars, sneakers, printed tees and her naughty fuck-it list that she made one day while drinking after a very bad lay. She is daughter of James Mitchell, manager of Bandini (Noah slades's ) F1 team, and therefore has never been out of his radar regarding any teenage fun. James has always kept her in check in the name of responsibility, rules and respect but under all of that he does not realise he acts that way because he doesn't want sophie to end up like her mother, leaving her child and husband to go to africa to save under- developed countries.

Sophie has been in all girls school all her life, and once she turns 18 and is accompanying her father to the prix season, she is told to go for a kid's birthday party for face painting. Once she is in college, her life changes for the worst it can be… with bad lays and even worse list of boys to choose from. She is an accounting major, who enjoys drawing and painting, but she doesn't want to let her father down in any way, hence do not complaint about it.

Her life changes when she befriends, maya alatorre and liam zander during her prix schedule. She remembers where she has met liam before.. when 18, at the kid's birthday party a mysteriously good looking guy had bribed a kid to leave her alone to talk to him. At the time liam was 25 and told her she's too young and naive to be with him, and if they meet again under different circumstances and time they would.

Sophie avoids liam like a plague because of her father's instructions and he looks like double trouble… (yum!). Anyway, she shares another silent moment with liam under the starry sky at one of the prix end of race gala. Liam asks her for a date, after he discovers her list by chance… she acts too intelligent and asks jax and maya to come with so that she doesn't have to be alone with liam. Everything is platonic between them as she friendzones liam and keeps her distance, while liam and maya helps her with her list.

Sophie gets drunk during canada prix and kisses liam one night in a park, which leads to an intense atmosphere, which later leads to another kiss and for them to agree on a friends with benefit situation. Well, i will not spoil anything because reading about the hot and sexy deeds happening between liam and sophie, to cross off her fuck-it list are worth the wait. (Go and read if you haven't already. And to add to the spice and excitement all of it happens while sophie is trying to hide from her father, because F1 racers are out of limits for sophie.

Although sophie is scared and knows it can make their friendship ugly, she ends up falling for liam. With his charming, nerdy, hot, insecure self. Liam who helps her relive her dream, when he gifts her paint and sketch book. He makes her realise that she needs to follow her dream as she is allowed to chase her happiness. On their last day together before the abu dhabi grand prix, liam takes her to a desert under the most beautiful starry sky, to cross off one last thing on the list. Sophie spends her last hours with him with a heavy heart knowing after the last race he has to choose between her and his next year's contract with Mccoy. Well, she breaks his heart, fights with him at dawn and they leave the place.

Sophie is very distracted and sad. James asks her daughter for what was wrong and tells her that he might know about it as he is not dimwit. I love the whole daughter-father relation here, as james is so supportive and tries to help them afterwards. He helps liam to learn about the truth of his company who is trying to blindside him in the name of contract.

Sophie returns home with a heavy heart and confronts her father about her wanting to help kids through painting therapy. Well, what can a loving father do ? he agrees. Liam comes to sophie's place at the same day and proposes her, with his own dreamy list written at the back of sophie's fuck-it list. A big big happy ending.

*LIAM ZANDER (28 yr old) - A Tall , Dark, Dashing with dirty blonde hair and blue eyes Mccoy F1 racer. Best in the Mccoy team, bestfriends to noah slade and jax kingston. He recently got into trouble with his company for fooling around with the owner's niece and it is a bad time for any other distraction in his life, especially miss Sophie Marie Mitchell.

Liam can not refuse the wave of desire and attraction that rises in his heart and body for Sophie, but he is in check. Liam tries and tries to get close to sophie during first 2-3 locations of the prix schedule, but she has her boundaries built too tall for him to surpass or even to peek by. The worst happens to liam, yes what happens with every other guy in a girl's life = Friendzoned.

Liam and sophie has a intense and very very hot game going on in the whole book while trying to stay away from each other (noone wants to accept it in their hearts that they need each other in all the ways possible). He steals various opportunities to talk dirty to sophie in the most crowded places, leave feather touches whenever they are alone and close enough to each other. He cannot understand why he is so mesmerised by sophie's sparkling sneakers under the dresses, her printed Tees, her innocent face which looks at the starry nights, or her very naughty fuck-it list.

Liam is a pure soul ( i'm saying that), he loves kids and he reads everyday before going to bed…. and to top it all (my personal favorite reason) he knows that books are better than the tv/movie adaptations of the story 😍. Coming back - as anyone would do, liam tries to take sophie for double dates and offers to help her with her very specific list. Everything is going fine till they decide to be friends with benefits. They spend more and more time together. She helps him reconnect with his brother and nieces and restore his family relations… and guess what happens to liam??. love happens… 😏.

Liam has a wounded heart, something we all go through in life for various reasons. His college bestfriend Johanna who falls in love with his elder brother Lukas and they have a beautiful daughter, but during her second pregnancy she unfortunately leaves the world and zander family with a lot of sadness and her second child. Therefore, liam doesn't like to go home for vacations, for his niece's birthday because it is johanna's death anniversary. He does what he can do best and shuts it all down and focuses on racing and partying till sophie arrives and stirs these feelings in him, which terrifies him. He keeps lying to himself but he can't deny that he feels for her and doesn't want her to leave him and go home after the season is done. He keeps insisting with his company to let him continue the next season with sophie (as friends). But he gets to know they have been playing with his career for their own gains and it is time for him to decide everything.

Guess what happens ?…. Yes, liam leaves the team and joins another. He exposes his company and accepts that he loves sophie at the last press conference after grand prix. And… he goes to sophie and confesses.

Liam zander's character shows healing, accepting, feeling and growing up as a person.

I love lauren asher for always giving us all the perfect reasons to read and dream. This books shows a very beautiful way of healing right after showing us the lowest point of liam's life. Sophie's chasing her dream and happiness. Both Liam and Sophie are like a puzzle pieces fitting together perfectly. This books gives us lot of emotions which leads to very intense slow burn ( well, i live for my struggles 😂). i personally love their sexual encounters ( i will be updating one very sexy scene next month). There are kind of three epilogues , one in the last chapter where on christmas liam gifts sophie her dream car and asks her to move in with him. Another one within the book where they are married for two years and sophie surprises him with her pregnancy and one extended epilogue which shows 14 years after noah and maya (boy - marko )and liam and sophie's (twins - stella and leo) marriage. By the way their kids are legends on the race track.

This book was a treat and i think i found another one of my favorite troupe (which i do not know what to call ? Is there a name for it… friends to lovers?? Or something else.. 😉)

Xoxo,

Ironically Witty!

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DIRTY AIR SERIES - LAUREN ASHER

Book Three : WRECKED 🧩🌐🎹🏎🏁

" @ To my anxious people out there - this one's for you. Don't let your worries win"

( Content Warning - This series contain sensitive topics such as Clinical anxiety, Panic attack, Depression, Murder, Huntington's disease. Therefore please read the book only after being mindful of your emotional well-being. )

This story starts a year after liam leaves the Mccoy team .

#Characters

*Jax Kingston - The kindest person i have come across yet from the dirty air series. The pouty lips, hazel eyes man with frizzy hair and soft curls. One who can play piano. Loves his parents the most. He loves sunrises and gets up early to see one everyday because he believes that everyday is a new start.

One thing that Jax kingston is hiding from most of the people around him in his daily life is his anxiety issues, and the main reason for them. Although he wants to be good, but it is like his defence mechanism to keep his worries at bay. He has negative views because of his mom's Huntington's disease. He feels he shouldn't bother her, or making memories with her is useless because later there will be nothing. She will wither away and it will all be too much for him to bear. Therefore he keeps to himself and his career, but then his anxiety leads him to taking too many pills and sometimes he consumes alcohol which leads him to do humiliating things in public.

This year elena is coming to take care of him, but he thinks its a bad idea, because as soon as she comes into his life, he can't resist her, she is interesting and annoying and her smile makes him forget his worries, and the worst of all is she makes him calm, he doesn't need his pills when she is around. She is a bad news for him according to him because he feels he doesn't deserve someone to love, someone by his side because he will burden them, a total nuisance.

Jax is full of anger, frustration, he "hates himself and has never ending worries which is a dream team of worst kind". He is afraid of getting himself checked for the huntington's disease because he is afraid to know that all that he holds dear in life, everything and everyone will be forgotten one day and he will wither away. He doesn't want someone to just let them go through the pain which he and his father is going through and someone who would have to take care of him all their lives till he forgets them and dies.

He is forced to tend to a sport psychologist Tom, who helps him overcome his own voices. He gets attached to elena during his schedule and they both end up in his house for the vacation. He realises that he is too deep in love with this woman, who writes notes for him so he doesn't have to take his pills. Woman who is knocking on his heart and mind without invitation. During their vacation he sees his mom, dad and elena bond. His mom is a reader( yes she is a part of us) and well she is a total romantic finatic. She tells him that elena is the one for him and that their story is the perfect hate to love story which they can tell their kids one day 😉.

As Jax and Elena's relation takes turns he wants to get checked because he feels positive and he wants to be sure of this disease and the future that he is dreaming of. But the worst happens and he gets a positive report because of which he distances himself from elena. But you know when elena doesn't give up on him, he comes through on the last day of the grand prix. He also gets most of his support from his best friend Liam, who makes him realise that he is losing something wonderful, because he is afraid of losing it in the future which is far away, and that he deserves love, to be happy, to feel and share. At the end he overcomes his anxiety a lot, he leaves racing and directs his attention to getting better and his family/friends. He proposes to elena when both of them have gone to much to and fro from his place to hers (different countries) and decides to surprise her. He adds a new shelf of snowglobes ( elena's hobby of collecting globes of memories as souvenirs) ,one each of the notes she had given him in this pill bottle and one special globe with her favorite song (Thinking out loud by ed sheeran) and there is a note asking her to marry him. He doesn't want to wait anymore for something he knows will happen sooner or later and spend anymore time away from her. In the end he builds a house with all of their dream points. One with pool, treehouse, golf course, piano, library and more.

I love Jax because his character teaches that one should cherish everything in their lives, and never give up on a chance of happiness. And everyone deserves a beautiful life, a partner to love, memories to hold forever.

*Elena Gonzalez - She is the perfect mix of her parents best features with dark natural wavy hair, average height, brown eyes with long lashes and lots of curves. A girl who loves rain but hates darkness ( or rather is scarfed of it). Her dad was ambassador for mexico and mom a housewife, both murdered in cold blood, shot in the dark when she was little and hiding in a cupboard to read her favorite bedtime story.

Well this little girl and her dad saw a dream together, to let her study abroad (u.s), so while she was living with her grandmother she took a loan and went to the U.S. It was very difficult to replay a big loan and work and also take care of your grandmother who was suffering from alzheimer's disease. It was too much making ends meet every month, to pay rent and hospital bills altogether. She established herself and made it into PR business. And thanks to her very sweet Gay friend(Elias and yes we love gay people they are the sweetest), she gets into PR business with the formula one teams. Elias is her best friend forever is a new F1 driver along side Jax kingston. Last time elena comes to help liam for a month to help him and this year again when she needed help god listened to her and sent her to jax's way. But this time is different, jax is a person she can't stand, also this year she has to share the room with him and stick to him like a glue even during the holidays( specially because he tends to do awful things for his reputation).

In the start she doesn't get to know about jax's anxiety problem as he chooses to not to tell her, but she after some time she makes sure to know everything about him. Both of them always argue in the morning and evenings when they are around each other in the room (two seperate bedrooms). Elena does her best to make jax seem a good guy other than on the racing track, she organizes these PR events, which includes donations, charity events for him as well as other friends of his who are also in the sport (maya/noah, elias, liam/sophie), as they are famous and rich so people tend to follow them and this helps with their rep. As she keeps getting to know jax she realises he is a good and kind person, and is hard only on the outside, and she somehow always finds herself looking for him, and his attention.

Elena finds herself lonely whenever she is around the friend group. She never really had friends except elias, she was always busy studying and making money to survive. She always knows how to keep herself busy, even in the private plane that they use for the racing schedule, she indulges in a ridiculously large puzzle which jax finds very disturbing and too colourful. She helps jax fight his anxiety by anonymously making him attend psychology sessions every weekend. She knows that whenever he is on a call with his family he gets anxious the most. She gets to know about his mother's disease when she accompanies him to his house for the holidays. She bonds so well with his mother and father both. They celebrate jax's birthday at his home and also she gets to have a heart to heart conversation with his mother, because she seems to get the feeling that they are meant for eachother and jax seems to be himself when he is with her, she tells elena about marriage and love and how it makes a person stronger.

However, other than all of this there are dark days for elena too. The girl who loves rain and keeps a snowglobe for each of her memories in life. She is in deep pain, for her grandmother who doesn't seem to recognize her every time she visits her, rather refers her as her mother and always ask about her father as well, which brings a lot of memories and pain for elena. There are days she spends alone with herself, remembering her parents on their death anniversary. And once when jax mistakenly switches off her room lights thinking she slept without noticing them, she awakens so scared and with a scream. That night jax soothes her and sleeps with her. Elena always finds relief and stillness in jax. They make each other better everyday.

Overall, it is a closed proximity, sports romance book. It contains a lot of triggers, i actually had tears in my eyes in several intervals because of Jax specially. I love how family is also a part of this book. It is shown that they are important for each other, their love gives them strength each day to move forward. Other than being a romance novel, it gives us a clear image of how a person cannot be pulled down by their health, disease. You can find happiness in a person. They help each other overcome fears, and they hope and dream together for a brighter tomorrow even if it is concrete they make beautiful memories today because one can never and should never forget to live their present in the fear of tomorrow. And remember "when someone tries their best and refuses top give up on you, you try to be better and work on it". For them and yourself.

**Fun Fact -Jax gets jealous of Elias and gets embarrassed about it when he gets to know that Elias is gay and just her best friend. 🙈🙈

Xoxo,

İronically Witty!

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Happy Sunday...

It's weekend and I love a strong woman... Always giving strength to women. ❤ "Senora Castillo bought you a gun? why?. "She always said a woman should be two things - armed and dangerous". - Final Offer (Lauren Asher) " She is the moon, wrapped in my darkness, yet she is my light". - Twisted King ( Ria WIlde quotes R.H Sin) Xoxo, Ironically Witty!