Status Updates From A Better Bad Idea

““You never needed to be reborn, Evelyn. You only ever needed to try, for yourself. Not for anyone else.””

“I’m seventeen and I’ve spent so much time thinking about loneliness.
Not just the loneliness of being alone but the loneliness of having so many people around you and being invisible to all of them.”

“Closure is a myth coated in gasoline and cheap whiskey.”

“It doesn’t take long to make a skinny, insecure girl disappear, I’ve found. Hide yourself. Arm yourself. Turn your flaws into strengths, highlight your inadequacies until it looks too intentional not to be beautiful. Paint yourself dark and angry and pretend you could be.”

“That’s the thing about being the right kind of person. There’s always more chances for you.”

““Today, Evelyn Peters is reborn,” I say, standing tall. Reborn as the person she was always meant to be. Who burns down the world if it looks at her wrong. “Let her be somebody worth remembering.””