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They chose to believe what was easy instead of what was hard and true, and they didn’t give a damn about what it did to you.”
about a statistically improbable number of dead grandmothers.
Once I longed to believe that I could heal every single wound Anthony inflicted, that I could rip all the dark pages from my life and be just like any other woman. Untouched. Whole. But I’ve learned that’s impossible. You wear your scars for a lifetime.
Fearing for your life has to be so much worse.
Why do we do this? Worse. Better. It's pain and it's horror. Ranking that is sick.
Even the best of us isn’t purely good. And even the worst of us isn’t purely evil.
But to hell with that. Healthy left me behind a long time ago.
“Since when did life start giving us what we deserved?”
“It’s not violence Dad craves. It’s the humiliation of anyone and everyone who ever stood up to him.
Look out, Viv
mostly because he’s had to ruthlessly prioritize his own mental health to even survive his terrible childhood. Where I see roots, he sees chains.
No wonder I like him
And I’m desperate enough to make him admit it.
You are not a good person. Why are you always putting your self destructive gratification over his stability? All cliches aside about SSC and YKIOK and all...what you do is self destructive. It's a kind of deliberate flashback. And...for him...
