Belle’s Reviews > Atmosphere > Status Update

“How entirely undemanding of yourself it was to believe that everything happened to you. And everything was about you. And that your feelings were the only ones that mattered. Worse yet, to afford yourself the role of the victim always - regardless of how grotesquely it required you to twist reality - so you never had to look in the mirror and admit you were the perpetrator.”

—that Joan did not know why everyone was so goddamn happy all the time until she met her.

The surrender had not always been easy—-it had shocked Joan just how much physical pain there was in loving someone like this.

“Its hard to pick up the phone sometimes when I’m mad. And that doest come from nowhere - I got it from her.”