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I am not strong I want to tell them. I am simply enduring.

My mama wanted me to experience things and go out into the world like she did, Gala says that was her legacy, and I was only continuing it and still am.

Resilience is key. It would be nice if whenever someone said, "I love you," it meant, "Everything will be fine." It's all reassurance anyway

“I was not sorry. You can't buy charm, but you certainly can spend it, and if that's true, you can certainly withhold it too. I didn't laugh either because no one said anything funny, but they all laughed anyway. I sipped at my drink, each sip endorsing my silence. It is truly a gift that I can alter the disposition of an occasion entirely. I am small but my mood radiates.
I can make a whole room unbearable.”

Isa is resilient and prospering and I love her she’s so on the go how does one have so much energy to indulge and entertain sub par men but also be so in touch with her femininity and self and the world around her. Always being excited by the feeling of possibility presenting itself.
Gala is a terrible friend I was getting tired of how she would brush off Isa and just not read a room or be nice to her best friend

I have always disappointed the people who ask me what I'm feeling.
Maybe it comes from the fear of what may change. The atmosphere suddenly hardens and from one moment to the next the person feels differently. I am really terrified of that. To be free to communicate without consequence-is that ever a possibility? I want to say, "I don't want you to have feelings about my feelings."

We are conditioned to be obsessed with people falling in love with us. Reaching that point is seen as a success. We never ask ourselves enough about what we want. Don't ever forget you have the ability to choose.
What she means is have an idea of what you want and never get talked out of it. I am slowly learning to never accept less than I deserve. Deciding how much I deserve is another matter.

"Don't you know, a woman's first taste of power is through sex.
That's why people want to strip her from her own body.
The possibilities are too frightening."

I LOVE ISA I can see why people are intrigued by her aura and love her inner thoughts as she entertains men like Tuzy.

Though we give the appearance of it, I wonder when we were last truly carefree. It's an impalpable thing to always chase. I've felt it in small, delicious fragments, when I'm dancing. The only way to achieve even the veneer of such freedom is to resist being pulled down by the weight of everything.

People think girls who have certain magnetism have never known Real Struggle, so they take it upon themselves to give a little bruising.They think we should always be learning Life Lessons. I said outright, "If I took myself as seriously as you take me, I may consider being hurt."I am highly educated in true sorrow, so I don't succumb to silly criticism. In no way am I going to be shocked by someone's ideas about me.

“It's just that turning a night into some form of romance takes us out of ourselves. It's a chance to see who we are through the eyes of someone who doesn't really know us.“

We look much different from when we were sixteen. It really depresses me. The plumpness in our faces has gone, and something around our eyes has changed; the brightness has dimmed.

When we were younger, everything for the first time always felt the best, or at least the Most, and sometimes getting older feels like striking the same chord and it sounding different.