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“‘It’s you,’ he says.” 🥹

“I think about how it felt when I came back from New York. How I expected L.A. to feel like home again, but it didn’t. How a part of me has been chasing that feeling without really knowing what I’m looking for.”

“‘You’re awfully hard on yourself.’
‘My past self deserves it. She was foolish and naïve and stupid. She believed things she should have known better than to believe.’
He doesn’t say anything. We both know what I’m talking about. We both know that I’m talking about him. He’s the mistake. The thing I had believed in.”

“The unconditional-love, endless-well-of-support, mutual-kinship kind of friendship.
I’m pretty sure those types of friendships are completely manufactured by Hollywood.
Because if those friendships really exist, I’ve never been part of one.”

“”I’m sorry,” he says.
For what? I think. (…) For all the moments I’ve replayed in my brain hundreds of times and all the things I’m unable to forget?
For all the things I don’t want to forget?
For my stupid, traitorous heart that hasn’t learned a single goddamn lesson in ten goddamn years?”

“(…) try to forget the melted-ice-cream kind of love that is now gone. That sometimes feels like it never really existed.”

“So what did that say about me that I dated and got dumped by a jerk?
Probably that I was pathetic and naïve”