Status Updates From Life Is Good and Other Lies

Chapter 10

Chapter 5

“Family. You said it yourself. If you choose us? We choose you right back.”

“The thought of staying where I am is worse than the thought of leaving to find something new.”

“They were just playing with those damn ugly toys they got. I’m going to burn those shitty things. They’ve caused nothing but trouble today, and they were probably made by exploited child workers in some underprivileged country anyway.”

“But who am I? I sometimes feel like I don’t know. Sometimes I wonder if I just put on this mask of sanity and pretend to cope. Then I start thinking too much, about everything, and asking myself if all this is right, if I really have to be this person, the one I’ve been for so long, or if it’s time to let it go. Perhaps I’m just not sane”

“It had become a habit, as if his brain couldn’t compute anything other than everything goes wrong all the time, over and over again.”

“If he pushed any harder, it would hurt, and maybe the pain would remind him of something else, although he wasn’t sure what.”

Slow start but really enjoying where it’s going

Despite occasionally getting lost in the narrative, I’m liking it.

A bit too dreary and depressing. Probably needs a flashback to better time before this picture of domestic sadness. But I do get that the characters really do love each other.