Left Drowning (Left Drowning #1)

by Jessica Park

This book is for everyone who has survived. You are not broken. You can love and be loved, despite what may feel like the eternally brutal nature of the world. Even when you’re drowning and so far under, there is always time to reach for someone who will teach you how to breathe again.

I see perfection in things that are likely considered imperfections by others.

Death and grief make everyone around you vanish because death and grief are intolerable.

“You need songs that make you feel. Some make you strong, some make you weak. Some build determination, some tear you apart. But you need all of those.”

I am. It’s a constant struggle to stay near the surface. I have just enough air to stop me from totally going under, but not enough to thrive.

He is telling me to protect my heart, but to love. He is telling me about timing, and dreaming, and surviving. And mostly, he is telling me to abandon my worry. To find joy and to live again.

It’s smart to end relationships that are poisonous. It’s a good thing. Sometimes you have to cut people out of your life to make things better. So you can move forward.

There is no set pattern to grief, despite what every stupid psych text has told me. There is no time frame that dictates when and how you’ll feel what you feel. You just get to deal with hell however, and whenever, it hits you.

“Yes, you did. You were like a dog pissing on a tree, marking your territory.” “You don’t look anything like a tree.”

“You are the great love of my life that I’m never going to have.” 24

“James. Psst! James. I’m feeling very embarrassed. I’d like to depart this venue.”