Jack Don’s Reviews > Not About a Boy > Status Update

That was such a good book, I started reading just because I like the cover, I thought it would be my little fun read. It wasn’t what it was. I didn’t even see coming in. I just got better and better and better and I feel like this book was very impactfu lfor me, in a lot of ways what I’m dealing with now and have delt with in the past like the last two years

“I have to find a way to help myself. I have to want to."
What I need now is to be alone. To learn how to be alone. I know that, but knowing it doesn't make it any easier for me to say these things to him.

"I know you want to help me, but if I let you then I'll start to need your help and 1 can't live like that." I don't want to lose myself in other people anymore. I don't want to disappear because I haven't learned to live in my own body. "I have to find a way to help myself. I have to want to."

You’re going to always feel alone if you continue to isolate yourself, you have to let people help you, your family loves you and you have to let them love you, you’re not meant to do this alone pt2

“I struggle with the part of me that wants to talk them out of it, to tell them that I’d be too much, there’s an easier way to live” in response them asking to officially adopt her and be her parents and for her to legally be part of their family and their responsibility pf1

“ we’ve been through so much in such a short period of time, we haven’t even known each other long enough to have wrecked each other the way we have”
Me and Sir Du

Crazy turn with her memory coming back and remembering losing her mom

She’s talking about having to let go and having to go to things that she’s tied to such as still being tied to Darrin and the effects of the relationship with Darrin and it makes me think more on the work that I need to do to let go of the things that happened between me and Taron and the same way that I let go of things that happen and childhood between me and my siblings Pain isn’t what makes me who

After talking to Hayden girl is in the psych ward to get better and cope and work through depression, I think this is the first book I’ve read/listened to that talked about a person actively in a psychiatric ward

she was dealing with a lot OK you were dealing with something too so why are you not opening your mouth and talking about it instead trying to hold a grudge
I don’t like that
Pt4