More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
“What do you want for your friend?” she asked quietly. “I want them to feel…like they don’t always have to be responsible for other people. Like it’s okay to not be the strong one all the time. Maybe even okay to ask for help.”
The ability to know another’s mind does not preclude the likelihood of misunderstanding it.
When you start thinking of yourself as damaged goods, you put up defenses to make sure no one has the chance to reject you,
I know, perhaps it wasn’t a grand passion by the usual standards, but can anyone understand what it meant to me? To have had for however short a time the interest and attention of a man who was strong enough to walk away from me and strong enough to let me walk away from him—it might be too much to say it healed something in me, but it was a start.
