The Fall of Bradley Reed (Seasons of Revenge, #3)

by Morgan Elizabeth

He wasn’t any of that. He wasn’t sweet or boyish. He wasn’t anxious or overworked. He surely wasn’t stressed about the wedding he had no hand in planning. He was just an asshole.

No more moping, no more sadness. I’m on a mission for myself. To find myself, maybe. Because I think I just now realized I don’t know who I am when I’m being what everyone needs me to be.

I’ve cried over how I feel guilt for this failed marriage when I was the only one putting effort into it. I’ve cried for the realization that nothing in my life is mine. And at some point, I just cried to cry. Sometimes, that’s the best kind of all.

She’s in her healed girlie era and we love that for her. I just personally am not there and more in my Reputation era.

I was too good for him. That’s a fact I’m starting to actually believe. Something I think if I tell myself enough, I’ll start to believe it to my bones. Fake it till you make it and all that.

Because really, there’s no reason to be upset over a relationship that was always going to fail since only one of us was ever invested.

“I’m just saying. Life is both painfully short and dreadfully long, and you only get the one. Live it for you.”

And when my thoughts become too loud, I can turn on Noah Kahan until I forget how depressing my life is. You can’t be depressed while listening to Noah Kahan.

I think they're doing a study about it, about how a mix of folk music and heartfelt lyrics that break your soul somehow counterbalance your own internal emotions until you’re at some kind of equilibrium.

Cami smiles, a smile reserved for people in love—the kind that people in love don’t even realize they make but the people who aren’t always see it.

I’m allowed to want someone to fall in love with me as well. I’m allowed not to have a one-sided relationship. And maybe most of all, I’m allowed to leave if I’m not getting that.

“Kissing you might be my downfall, Olivia, but I’m going to be doing it anyway. If I’m going to hell, might as well taste heaven along the way.”