A monster who would see my mother’s inner darkness and cultivate it, nurture it, until it eclipsed all light. A monster named Jodi Hildebrandt.
“You are in all of my happiest places.
You are where my mind goes when it needs to be soothed.”
― Happy Place
You are where my mind goes when it needs to be soothed.”
― Happy Place
“Everything’s different and nothing’s changed, Harriet,” he says. “I tried so fucking hard to let you go, to let you be happy, and when I see you, I still feel like—like you’re mine. Like I’m yours. I got rid of every single piece of you, like that would make a difference, like I could cut you out of me, and instead, I just see everywhere you’re supposed to be.”
― Happy Place
― Happy Place
“I rarely said his name, though. It felt too much like an incantation. As if it would light me up from the inside, and he'd see how much I wanted him, how all day long my mind caught on him like a scar in a record. How, without even trying, I knew exactly where he was at all times, could likely cover my eyes, get spun around, and still point to him on the first try.”
― Happy Place
― Happy Place
“There doesn’t need to be a winner and a loser. You just have to care how the other person feels. You have to care more about them than you do about being right.”
― Happy Place
― Happy Place
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