If You Must Know (Potomac Point, #1)

by Jamie Beck

“Because he’s a narcissist. He creates his own truth to control others and feel good about himself. At this point, he probably believes his own lies.”

I couldn’t connect all the lies to the truth of my life, or maybe it was the other way around—I couldn’t connect the truth with the lies of my life. In the jumble only one truth stood out. When you pour everything you have into a belief, letting it go is like killing a part of yourself, even when you know it’s

the only way to survive.

“Dreaming’s easy. It lets you feel productive while you avoid the work it takes to make a dream reality.”

getting good at things requires commitment and learning how to come back harder if you fail the first time. Promise me you won’t quit things because

you’re scared you’re not good enough.”

For a long time, I’d believed my way of navigating life had made me smarter than others, and that that would protect me from this kind of fate. Now I knew better. I wasn’t smarter than anyone, and no one gets through life unscathed.

I could control only my own way of handling life, which meant I had to let go of my need for perceived perfection.