Imaginary Strangers (Dangerous Strangers, #1)

by Minka Kent

“It’s easy to romanticize the past or play the what-if game, and some people spend their entire lives doing that, but in my experience, there are more productive ways to work through these kinds of things,”

If someone chooses to exit your life, you shouldn’t stalk them—you should thank them. They did you a favor. Why more people don’t realize this is beyond me. I’ve never understood the idea of longing to be with someone who has no desire to be with you. Longing is merely a type of thought, and thoughts alone are incapable of changing circumstances, facts, or other people’s feelings about you.

Now, making someone sorry they betrayed you? Taking back your power? Living your best life as a middle finger to an ex? I could get behind a song like that. People are too soft these days.

I’m not a therapist. And if I were, I’d be the worst kind. I’d teach my clients the art of manipulation, how to make anyone putty in your hands. I

wouldn’t be able to teach them not to feel guilty about it, though. That’s

not the kind of thing you can teach. It has to come naturally. Either you have a ...