Before We Were Innocent

by Ella Berman

“You should know better than most that not everything can be solved. Sometimes your entire fucking life catches on fire for no reason other than to remind you of how fragile it all is. How little control we have over any of it,” Joni says flatly.

maybe I never did. “I always thought that

Sometimes we could be cruel for sport, yes, but most of the time we hurt each other to hide our own gaping wounds. To find out not just if we were enough for each other but if we would ever be enough for anyone.

Because while it’s not a happy story, it’s not only a tragedy either. It’s the story of three perfectly imperfect women who hurt each other in all the most obvious ways, but who loved each other enough for a lifetime.

it never was about Theo. It was about the power the three of us held over each other as best friends, as chosen sisters—the power to cleanse, heal, and lift each other up, yes, but also the power to hurt each other, maybe even to destroy.