Cassie Bendix’s Reviews > Everlong > Status Update

What’s the point in writing stories if you’re never going to share them?”

Books are something that time has not erased; humanity will always crave a world outside their own. What better way to immortalize Sam than to share him with the world?

Lil’s opening line: She sits at the same bench, in the same park, every night.

“Being ready is…knowing that you have lived your life well. It’s taking every moment as it comes and being grateful for it, and knowing if you were to die tomorrow you would die content.”

“Just tell me what you need.”
She needs Sam 😭🥺💔

“There are nights when the loneliness is all encompassing, that there are moments where she misses him so desperately that she searches the apartment for a trace of his scent. Sometimes she wakes up from dreaming, confused and disoriented, wondering why the bed is cold…there are dozens of moments throughout the day where she misses him so keenly that she feels like she is breaking.”

“I’m scared. I’m scared to live without him.”
“It’ll get easier.”
“Easier is not the same as better.”

“And Lily stops counting” 😭😭😭

“I’m sorry I worried you. I’m sorry I almost left. I’m sorry I can’t stay forever.” ~ damnit, here come the tears 😭

“Another year on top of eternity is not worth celebrating, but another year with him is…there is only one thing she wants, and she knows it is something she will never get. Time is fickle like that. She wishes for more of it anyway.”

“I’m going to be pushing your child out of my vagina in about a month. Tell me again how lucky I am?”
“You tell him, girl! Take no prisoners!”
😂😂😂

“Fiction should always be a basis for reality.” 😂😂