Ashley

“And yet I can't help myself. Because last time I broke, last time I cried and complained and made a fuss, I lost him. I will not let that happen again. So I shove my concerns down. And my disappointments. And my grievances. And everything that isn't my perky tits or my warm, wet vagina. Those are his. But everything else, everything that's unappealing to him, that's too needy and too emotional and too sensitive and too much, everything that might lead to another breakup, I keep to myself and I scream into a pillow later.”
― Jennette McCurdy, Half His Age

“Maybe it’s me. Maybe I’m the problem. My mom called me hard to love when I was seven and the phrase always stuck with me even though she swore she didn’t mean it twenty minutes later”
― Jennette McCurdy, Half His Age

“People who come from functioning families just don’t have the same charge as the rest of us. Functioning families make for boring, flavorless people who just go through the motions of life, never knowing what it means to live it.”
― Jennette McCurdy, Half His Age

“We start our walk. He asks me about my future and I ask him about his past, and something in that feels heavy—the assumption that my life is ahead of me and his is behind him. That twenty years is the difference
between a life that’s considered yet to be lived and one that’s considered over.”
― Jennette McCurdy, Half His Age