Norma (I'm here just have a reading slump)

“Take a drink every time you hear you’re not enough.
Not the right fit.
Not the right look.
Not the right focus.
Not the right drive.
Not the right time.
Not the right job.
Not the right path.
Not the right future.
Not the right present.
Not the right you.
Not you.
(Not me?)
There’s just something missing.
From us.
What could I have done?
Nothing. It’s just…
(Who you are.)
I didn’t think we were serious.
(You’re just too…
…sweet.
…soft.
…sensitive.)
I just don’t see us ending up together.
I met someone.
I’m sorry
It’s not you.
Swallow it down.
We’re not on the same page.
We’re not in the same place.
It’s not you.
We can’t help who we fall in love with.
(And who we don’t.)
You’re such a good friend.
You’re going to make the right girl happy.
You deserve better.
Let’s stay friends.
I don’t want to lose you.
It’s not you.
I’m sorry.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“sure, it is a superpower
to care so deeply about others' happiness, health, energy, wealth
but it is also my deepest flaw”
― Kelsea Ballerini, Feel Your Way Through: A Book of Poetry

“Stories might be an escape, but in the end, that's all they were. In the end, reality always crashed back in.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cursed

“... she feared that dreams were like fairytales, a little bit true and not entirely trustworthy.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After