Status Updates From You Love Me (You, #3)

A lot’s changed since I wrote that first draft of You in 2013. (I think it’s officially clear that Penn Badgley was the right one to play Joe onscreen.) One way in which I don’t change is that I still get butterflies when I realize that my imaginary “friend” Joe exists in a real, meaningful way for so many people.

I wasn’t mugged. Love shot me. And then she shot herself.

joe goldberg can i trust you

You have to encourage Nomi to believe an outright lie because you’re a good mother and you’ve wondered what’s worse: your daughter knowing that your husband fucked your best friend or your daughter thinking Melanda was a sexually deviant spinster child molester.

“My mom has cancer and fuck cancer is right because that shit is expensive.”