Vanessa’s Reviews > The Rewind > Status Update

Maybe we tell each other a multitude of lies, just so we cand find someone to love us.

Frankie didn't push people away because it served her; she did it because loneliness was a safer space than emotional vulnerability.

"This is exactly like you: you can't leave well enough alone. You just come in, stir up shit, and press the escape button and boom, you're gone."

Maybe there was something to simply being still. To working through the discomfort that she so often fled from.

"...If you never fight, you never learn how to fight fair, how to fight well Instead, there's just a void, and inevitably, eventually, that becomes combustible, just like it did for them."

"Lie to me well, and we'll all pretend that's enough to be mistaken for honesty."

"They were friends once, even before they fell in love, but that's not the kind of thing you can return to after you've so deeply drawn blood."