She’s not outwardly homophobic or anything, but she has this rigid idea of who I am in her mind, and she always wants me to fit that picture perfectly. To fit in a box she’s designed and that she’s comfortable with.
“At some point, you have got to stop worrying so much about what everyone else needs and start thinking about what you need.”
― Things We Never Got Over
― Things We Never Got Over
“There’s a difference between taking care of someone because you love them and taking care of someone because you want them to love you,” she continued. There was a big difference. One of them was genuine and giving, and the other was manipulative, controlling.”
― Things We Never Got Over
― Things We Never Got Over
“The Fraud Police are the imaginary, terrifying force of 'real' grown-ups who you believe - at some subconscious level - are going to come knocking on your door in the middle of the night, saying:
We've been watching you, and we have evidence that you have NO IDEA WHAT YOU'RE DOING. You stand accused of the crime of completely winging it, you are guilty of making shit up as you go along, you do not actually deserve your job, we are taking everything away and we are TELLING EVERYBODY.”
― The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
We've been watching you, and we have evidence that you have NO IDEA WHAT YOU'RE DOING. You stand accused of the crime of completely winging it, you are guilty of making shit up as you go along, you do not actually deserve your job, we are taking everything away and we are TELLING EVERYBODY.”
― The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
“When you trust someone to see you for who you really are, the betrayal is a thousand times worse than if you hadn’t handed them the weapons in the first place,” Lucian spoke quietly.”
― Things We Never Got Over
― Things We Never Got Over
“After that, even if he pops the question, even if he shows up at the altar, he’ll hold on to the fact that it wasn’t his idea. He washes his hands of responsibility for the entire relationship.”
― Things We Never Got Over
― Things We Never Got Over
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