Dannii Elle’s Reviews > The Conditions of Will > Status Update

"You can’t avoid the avalanche of emotions that come with the termination of a relationship; you can only prolong them, which I refused to do. I looked every feeling I felt square in the eye and stared it down... The grief would come in waves, and I’d miss him on certain days, at certain hours, but for the most part, I had closure, because it wasn’t rejection and no one fucked up. We were in love and it didn’t work."

"If he was more like me, he would have pushed. The truth, no matter the cost. But all our lives, Oliver has loved me in a way where he’d never hurt me; even if hurting me meant loving me the most, he couldn't."

He gives me a long look again and then shakes his head. “That’s not why you’re sad.”
I bellow, “Who the fuck asked you!”
He shrugs gently. “I don’t know, Georgia—I think maybe the more important question is, who didn’t ask you?”

Liking this less than Magnolia Parks right now but am so invested in the family drama already!

"But that’s not how pain works… You ignore it and it just sinks down deeper. It lodges itself in the corners of our memories, hangs off tree branches on Callawassie Drive. It hides under the pews in the back row of the church. It gets caught in a pile of sheets no one knew what to do with."