Morgan’s Reviews > Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted > Status Update

You can’t guarantee that people won’t hurt or betray you— they will, be it a breakup or something as big and blinding as death. But evading heartbreak is how we miss our people, our purpose.

The way we heal does not always look like healing.

After you’ve had the ceiling cave in on you— whether through illness or some other catastrophe — you don’t assume structural stability. You must learn to live on the fault lines.

It’s a delusion that you can build a barricade between yourself and your past — that you can ignore your pain, that you can bury your great love with a new relationship, that you are among the lucky few who get to skip over the hard work of grieving and healing and rebuilding — and that all this, when it catches yo to you, won’t come for blood.