Giiinia

“Don’t you understand how condescending it is,” he said, “for someone you love not to tell you about the biggest thing happening in their life, because they don’t want to bother you? Because they think you can’t handle it?” “I just wanted to leave you out of it. Because I do love you. You know that. I’m always saying it.” “That’s not an act of love, Rache. It’s an act of…I don’t know, ambivalence. It’s an act of distance.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

“People will always love telling you how you’re supposed to be feeling and it will always make you feel less than when you don’t feel it. I’m sorry if I was being one of those people.” She shook her head. “How old are you?” “Eighteen.” “I’ll tell you what I wish someone told me when I was eighteen—it never goes away.” “What is ‘it,’ exactly?” “All of it, any of it, just it.”
― Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl

“I think they felt guilty that they couldn’t help me in the way that I wanted to be helped. But we would get through it the way Irish people traditionally get through things. By getting shit-faced.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

“I decided then that love love better be watched closely. So I did just that. Watched to see how everybody did their loving. I have been doing it now all my life, and all I can tell you . . . it is a lesson and a education to watch the way different people love, or don't love, other people.”
― J. California Cooper, Some Soul To Keep