Status Updates From Happy Hour

I am not strong I want to tell them. I am simply enduring.

My mama wanted me to experience things and go out into the world like she did, Gala says that was her legacy, and I was only continuing it and still am.

Resilience is key. It would be nice if whenever someone said, "I love you," it meant, "Everything will be fine." It's all reassurance anyway

“I was not sorry. You can't buy charm, but you certainly can spend it, and if that's true, you can certainly withhold it too. I didn't laugh either because no one said anything funny, but they all laughed anyway. I sipped at my drink, each sip endorsing my silence. It is truly a gift that I can alter the disposition of an occasion entirely. I am small but my mood radiates.
I can make a whole room unbearable.”

what kind of Charli XCX-coded, performative, TikTok-buzzword-riddled book is this

Isa is resilient and prospering and I love her she’s so on the go how does one have so much energy to indulge and entertain sub par men but also be so in touch with her femininity and self and the world around her. Always being excited by the feeling of possibility presenting itself.
Gala is a terrible friend I was getting tired of how she would brush off Isa and just not read a room or be nice to her best friend

its getting incrementally better but im still just trying to finish it at this point

“Aggressive is another word for frank, candid, forth-right. He said, "What do you want?" ll I could think of was peeling the skin of a Valencia orange in bed on a bright morning with someone pulling me into the covers because they want to spend two or three minutes nestling before starting their day So I said, "Not much."

I have always disappointed the people who ask me what I'm feeling.
Maybe it comes from the fear of what may change. The atmosphere suddenly hardens and from one moment to the next the person feels differently. I am really terrified of that. To be free to communicate without consequence-is that ever a possibility? I want to say, "I don't want you to have feelings about my feelings."