Status Updates From The Mermaid Upstairs

very good

"As my friends become extinct, I’ve learned you have to do what makes your heart sing. Nothing else matters. But you can’t help anyone else, if you’re not taking time for yourself. You have to live your own life too.”

I can see why everyone says that em is acting bratty.
She just said something about everyone appeasing her mother as if there was a town meeting she missed out on.
& well, it's true. Her dad tells her to let medicals deal with it but no one's sat her down & explnd 2 her "hey this is "XYZ" "

she's lost.
but don't no one act like she wouldn't accept the help.
Look at how grateful she was when Janet offered to help.

" Nora the Mermaid honestly believed that she was more powerful than Mother Nature. "

why is this book making me cry at 530 in the morning?!😭

now im hungry.

Once fear was done dancing around in my head for what seemed like forever, shame arrived.

And the truth was, I had failed Nora. All I had to do was pick her up and I forgot. Even though she thought she was a mermaid, she was still my mother. No one was more disappointed at me than myself.

💔💔💔

Idk why everyone is saying em needs to grow up?
She's a teen?
Talked with the responsibilities of taking care of an adult?
Without explanations?
And the dad kinda sucks about the while thing? Who the fuck leaves 2 underage girls with a woman who needs care so they can go out of state for a week?
Wtf.

“You know, once a secret is public it loses its power over you.”

"You have control of what you bring into the room. Every room.”

♡