Status Updates From Things You Save in a Fire

"I always kind of thought that forgiveness would come with time, that the bitterness would slowly fade like a scar until I couldn't even really find it anymore if I looked. But that's not what happened. It didn't fade. It hardened. Other things around it faded, but the memory of the day you left is still as sharp as if it just happened.”

There's no longing. There are no goo-goo eyes, or savoring glances, or secret trysts. Firehouses are temples to heroic masculinity, and ladyish things like heart sparklers are the absolute antithesis of everything they stand for-because there is absolutely nothing girlier than falling in love… I had always been totally immune to all that nonsense.

Until right now.”

“She was trying to help me face my future, but she was clearly taking about her own past, about the path she herself had walked to get where she was.”

Tips to survive being a female firefighter at a job where it’s clear a woman is not wanted. (Which is ironic to go from Austin TX to Boston MA)

So far hate the main character 😭