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transference (pg. 85)
charlatan (pg. 85)

mawkish, maudlin (pg. 67)

“Her drug of choice: terrible news. Nothing gave her mother more pleasure than hearing about the worst thing that ever happened to you, preferably in exhaustive detail, the more visually disturbing the better. The only metric she used to judge someone's worth: had they suffered enough?”

“Yes, people age horribly. They suffer strokes. Their bodies and brains fall apart. But the male ego? Firmly intact until the bitter end” 😂

look up:
expats (pg. 33)
Teutonic stoicism (pg. 1)

“My triggers are covered in wet sand because my head is a giant cement mixer”

<3 :,)

If I didn’t start reading this at 10pm, I could’ve and probably would’ve finished this in one sitting. It is so funny and quick paced, although managing big emotions throughout the story, it tells it in a straight up this is what I’m thinking kind of way that I love. Melissa’s humor is right on par with mine and I just love reading things like this because it’s just so real.

Getting spooky ooky

“When I try to speak about how I feel, I end up stumbling all over myself. But when I write it out, suddenly there's clarity. Life doesn't seem worthwhile without synthesizing my experiences into art, the catharsis of putting it all out onto the page. It's the only way I've ever been able to get other people to understand how I'm feeling."

“It was interesting, she mused to herself, how life sometimes simply gave you a whole new perspective by waiting around long enough for you to see it.”

Realizing my love for memoirs. Wow.

“I could bleed out of my vagina and still win first place”

“…she said something like this too shall pass and I wanted to swerve into oncoming traffic.”