Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)

by Abby Jimenez

“Don’t let them decide the life you’re going to live. You only get one.”

Bri shook her head with a grin. “Look at that man-trum. Eight thousand nerves in the clitoris and still not as sensitive as a white man not getting his way.”

“Ali, men are two things. Disappointing and consistent. I believe you.”

I should have been looking forward to it. Not the party or the schmoozing part, but the beginning of my ability to make a difference. And I couldn’t even muster the energy to care about it. It felt completely meaningless to me. Everything did. This is what depression felt like.

My body felt atrophied, like the simple act of getting up was a feat.

Nothing made me smile. None of the things I typically loved appealed to me. And it occurred to me that I had drowned. I didn’t save myself. And now I was just floating, weightless, dead inside.

I wondered when it would get better—when doing the right thing would start to fe...

There’s something more final than forever. It’s never. Never is infinite.