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“Hurt people hurt people,” Shannon continued. “She’s a hurt person. A hurt but very redeemable person.”
“And then it hit me that Joe’s never going to be fully better, is he? Because there’s no cure for his disease!”
“She’s not a bad person,” he called after me when I stood up and moved for the door. “She’s just hurt.”
The desire to feel affection and the urge to run from it both in one breath.
It wasn’t a nice place to be when she erupted on him, but it didn’t make me feel embarrassed anymore. Just tired.
it’s a lot easier to believe in God when you haven’t been faced with a reason not to.”
“The way she died hurt the people she loved but, in the moment, she couldn’t see a way past her pain.”
“Hurt people hurt people,” Shannon offered. “I’m not excusing it, but please don’t vilify her for not using healthy ways to cope with her trauma.”
I couldn’t bow to her anger.
She wasn’t the same little girl I’d grown up with, and while my heart truly broke for all the heartache she had endured, I couldn’t live my life with this level of toxicity in it.
We all lived in the same home and approach life with completely different perspectives.”
