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Nobody can kick your ass for what you think in your mind, not even your mom.
They speak the same language only different. What comes out of my mom’s mouth never affects what comes out of my dad’s mouth.
“Ride the wave,” he says. “Don’t wait for it. Don’t fear it. Just ride it.”
alive. But the thing about things that break your heart, it’s hard to validate them by saying them out loud.
Trusting your gut above all else because that’s your own little Internet right there, that’s your gut.
Journal. The thing I keep realizing is that there is no bottom of the heart, no darkest moment of your life, there is only darker, darker still.
Constellations exist because someone saw them, pointed, and someone else said, Yes, I see it too.
your fate is death no matter what you do.
because sometimes things just are what they are and you have to accept them.
books save lives.
You’re supposed to have interests, things that make your eyes pop out of your head
‘Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.’
The worst thing isn’t the disease, Chloe. It’s knowing that you have it, that it will slowly eat you, that’s the worst thing about any bad thing in the world, the knowing, and if you can get a handle on that, you can get through anything. Consciousness is the monster and it wins.
I like her this way, older. Life makes you better after it makes you worse.
you can always kill yourself next year.
It’s amazing how much money you save when you don’t have a social life, when you don’t have to go see your friends for the game, when you don’t have friends.
I think it’s almost an overdose of love. Different kinds of love coexist in me. I think maybe I’m a sociopath. Maybe I have no heart. Maybe I have a big heart.
But isn’t it why you get married in the first place? So that someone can row the boat when you’re tired.
face. This happens. Little spells. You don’t lose a person all at once. You lose them in parts.
Love is forever, but at some point hope becomes a liability.
Life is short. Life is long.
school. I carry your heart in my heart.