Samantha’s Reviews > The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley > Status Update

“I’m afraid to feel anything for fear of feeling everything.”

“I’m broken! People talk and become friends and fall in love, and I talk, and people leave, and I push them away!”

“I’ll be perfectly fine, going on about my day, and then I’ll call for you in the other room. When you don’t answer it’s like I have to relive it all over again. I’m pretty sure I’ll never get used to the fact that you’re gone.”

This hit so hard.

“I’m upset at every age with no one to defend me, my feelings constantly belittled or pushed aside. But here, now, in the simplest, smallest way - Cal has done the exact opposite.”

“I don’t want to be too happy because it will make any impending sadness feel that much worse.”

“I hear what you’re saying, and logically, it makes sense. One person doesn’t represent the whole group,” I say. “But in my experience, nobody handles my heart with care.”

“I never let anyone in. I can’t. I just can’t. When I do, bad things happen.”

“Even if I’d have known the end at the beginning, I wouldn’t have traded a minute of it for anything.”

“A scene flashes in my mind, a forgotten memory, of me in the back of my parents’ car on the way to school. I’m ten, and I’m praying to meet a friend who understands me. And here she sits, just a few years late.”

Starting chapter 6. Ugh. So far it’s cute but there’s soooo much internal dialogue. Not my favourite.