Abbie’s Reviews > F*ck Love > Status Update

“There is only war in love,” he says. “If anyone tells you otherwise, they’re lying. The constant fight to
keep love relevant, while growing and changing as a human, is the battle. You fight for them, fight to keep them, fight to love them. Do you fight for yourself, or do you fight for the relationship? What can’t you live without? There’s your answer.”

There’s a lot of rebuilding to do after your heart breaks. For instance, you have to rearrange your perspective. What is important now that I have no desire to eat, drink, work, play, love, sleep, talk, or
think? Healing. You have to focus on the minuscule, stupid things that make you happy every day.

You can love someone your whole life and not know why

Who wants to hide from the truth? Maybe people who have had too
much of it. Or people who have had too little. Or people who are too shallow to appreciate its hard
edges.

And I know I’m wearing a slutty
dress, and my hair is a mess, and people are looking at me. But they can’t see my heart.

When people resolve themselves to something, it becomes very difficult to feel anything but that resolve.

I love the Harry Potter references!

There are definite, solid lines in life that should never be crossed.

“The sadness comes in waves, yes? It’s like you feel something different every ten minutes.”

Was it me? Was I too cold? Too inexperienced? Not pretty enough? Not good enough in bed? And when disloyal, seed-sowing scum buckets slept with other girls, why did
women look inward to find fault in themselves? It wasn’t my fault.