Kindle Notes & Highlights
This was how it felt to have your heart slowly pulled out. To be ripping it out yourself, after years of secret dreams and plans. You stupid, stupid girl, she told herself. You should never have hoped so much for it. Don’t you know it always ends up kicking you in the teeth? Don’t hope. Give it up.
She clung to her misery, like a safety blanket.
She didn’t feel sad. She felt—numb. It occurred to her then that perhaps this was just how it was going to be from now on, and in a way perhaps it was for the best, living alone with no annoyances, no one to hurt you.
If it can’t be perfect I… don’t want to do it at all.
“Well, you left her,” said Elle. “You broke her heart, you went off with someone else and had a great life. And she didn’t.”
