Samanthability’s Reviews > Before I Let Go > Status Update

“It’s not the lighthearted girls’ night we anticipated, but a night when we confide our deepest fears and shine light on the things we’ve kept hidden in the dark.”

“And there it is, the truth. It took everything I had and some stuff I didn’t know was there to live through Yasmen leaving me. Through her pushing me out of her life. Through her telling me she didn’t even know if she loved me anymore.”

“Who wants to walk in the park? I think that man would run wild with you.”

“With eyeshadow done, I apply a little Trophy Wife highlighter to my cheeks and chin. If Rihanna never records another song, I’m fine as long as Fenty keeps on giving. It’s a fair trade.”

As you should

Between Vashti being around, and Deja intentionally being rude, Yasmeen does need therapy and girls night.

Cause I just don’t like Vashti.

And for everyone, that recommended this book… I’m accepting monetary apologies for the tears I’ve cried in these first couple chapters.

That’s the part of depression people don’t consider, that at times it physically hurts. My therapist helped me understand that the back pain and the headaches I developed were most likely related to stress, and stress hormones like cortisol and noradrenaline contributed to my apathy and exhaustion. Which exacerbated my depression. It was an inescapable cycle…

Exactly…

“You rarely see good things in the rearview mirror.”

“Then she laughed and I wondered if this—finding someone you can laugh with when everything hurts—was the stuff happily ever afters were made of.”