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This book is dedicated to anyone brave enough to embrace your issues… Courageous enough to dance with your demons. Here’s to the beautiful deformities in us all.
“Tell me every terrible thing you ever did and let me love you anyway.”
Maybe we’re two mangled, jagged pieces who could click together, despite all the fires burning around us.
No one’s perfect, and I believe a person’s imperfections make them into who they are. Otherwise we’d all be the same.
“Dash…” I turn over my shoulder. “Just because we’re broken, it doesn’t mean we need them to put us back together.”
looking for any sign of my man. I need to help him. I need to protect him. I don’t care how broken he is, and I don’t care what he’s done. To me, he’s perfect, and I’ll never make the mistake of letting him go again.
We’re beyond fucked up. Detrimentally so. We’re two halves of the most messed up whole in the world.
like a scale constantly trying to keep balanced. But the more I think about it, the more I realize it doesn’t need to be. Maybe some things in life are meant to forever fluctuate. Like chaos. A perfect imbalance. And maybe even the distorted can be beautiful, when you really look at it.
It doesn’t matter what you think is damaged in your brain, Dash, because I want to fix it. Baby, if there’s any sort of wound inside you, then I’ll be your tourniquet.”
Super crazy, I know. But I’m learning to love the crazy just a little.
let go of the idea of having parents who loved us at a young age, we learned to take care of ourselves. The walls of protection your parents are supposed to build for you, we made that shit on our own.