Gab N’s Reviews > You Could Make This Place Beautiful > Status Update

ok the whole “I won’t tell you this” and “I’m not going to say that here” bit of this has grown increasingly irritating… like, why tell me that you’re deliberately not telling us something? It’s souring me on the whole book.

the bummer about doing this in audiobook—any audiobook, really—is not being able to excessively underline sentences like: “To tell the truth was to pull the pin [of the grenade].”

ok honestly the thing that made me cry? the neighbors on Christmas

“I agreed that something needed to give. I disagreed that the something needed to be my work. And in turn, me. What would I have done to save my marriage? I would have abandoned myself. And I did, for a time. I would have done it for longer if he’d let me.”

WOOF 😮‍💨

“You feed the ghost that does you harm…Giving it a little something sweet is a way of saying, Thank you for the pain you caused me, because that pain woke me up. It hurt enough to make me change. ‘Wish for more pain,’ a friend’s therapist once told her, ‘because that’s how you’ll change.’ It has to hurt so much that you have to do something differently. The pain forces your hand.”