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.
“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
“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
“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
“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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