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Do you know what happens when you get rid of a deadweight husband who thinks you’re an embarrassment? You soar.
Mom confuses need with respect, and doesn’t understand that respect can’t be bought. It has to be given because you did something worthy. Because you’re a person of accomplishment.
“If you want something, fight for it. If people treat you badly because of this, you have to fight that to hold on to what you have. Don’t let anything or anyone take away what you want. If you do, you aren’t fighting hard enough.”
“Like a little sparkly dollop of evil,”
“Everyone has a blind spot they can’t see. When somebody points out, they deny it.
what happened before is a sunk cost. So you shouldn’t think about it, but only about what you can do from now on. Ask yourself: Am I happy the way I am?”
Grant said that love is fake, that it doesn’t exist—a lot of problems are caused by the wrong assumption that love is real. But I think about Emmett. He was miserable because of love, but he’s also very happy because of it. Grant might be right, but who cares about living in a delusion if you’re happy? We might all be in a Matrix-style simulation anyway.
