Lily Pendleton’s Reviews > The Harder I Fight the More I Love You: A Memoir > Status Update

“And then I wasn’t the fairy-tale kid who got it all, but just some broke asshole with half a heart and no art degree. I felt a hot, molten shame, like for a few years I’d tricked people into thinking I was some sort of human-shaped person with a future, only to be found out for what I was: a janky beast, going nowhere. And I hadn’t even hit bottom yet.”