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He never said he’d have more time for me. Or that he’d try harder to make some for me. Or that he’d commit to me in any kind of new, more meaningful way. He only said that he loved me. Maybe it was just something he needed to get off his chest.

Let me know how beautiful I am…to him. To him. Always to him.

nearly the final stretch of the book and i'm still very confused on my overall stance on it so far, lmao

And I laugh through my tears to try to be more lighthearted and I look at him while I’m laugh-crying with snot dribbling into my mouth and I say:
“Don’t be concerned. This is good. This is great. This is what I want.”

well damn

“You’re usually so understanding,” he says, his face settled with a milky look of concern.
It’s a masterfully chosen phrase, a way of pinning the problem back onto me

haha ok

He thrusts into my solid rage, over and over, every pump puncturing it, making it weep like a bad blister.

"...I’ve been managing my mom’s emotions since I was five. I don’t spend my days worrying about what house party I’m gonna get wasted at, I worry about if water’s gonna come out of the faucet the next time I turn it on. If my mom’s gonna be bedridden from a breakup and I’m gonna have to drop everything in my life to be there for her so she doesn’t spiral so bad she loses another job. None of that’s age-appropriate.”

*shuffles into goodreads like a guilty child*