Elizabeth’s Reviews > The Heartbreak Hotel > Status Update

“I got scared I was doing what I always do, give all of myself, and take care of everyone around me, even if I don’t get it back.”

“Nate was also gone so often—more than half the time—that I’m used to being without him. That I don’t miss him, if I’m being honest with myself. I just miss knowing that I had someone out there, planning to come home to me.”

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“I’d done what Goldie always feared I’d do, what we grew up watching our mother do and be destroyed by: I let a man take care of me.”

“I let myself believe — naively, foolishly — that this life was mine for the keeping.”

“it's been at least a year, longer, probably since Nate and me have been Nate and me. We settled so invisibly into our shared but separate lives … Nate had become my long-term plan by default, not choice, and that there was a part of me, not insignificant, that stayed with him only to prove something to myself. That I'm capable of an everlasting relationship. That I'm settled and grown-up and taken care of”