U Up? Quotes

“I’d spent a year thinking about how he broke that promise, when I should’ve been thinking about how selfish it was, after he’d left, to make him stay.”
― Catie Disabato, U Up?

“I’ll love you for the rest of my life,” I said, which was a more concrete promise than I’ll love you forever, and also one I was prepared to keep.”
― Catie Disabato, U Up?

“I imagined I had a pit like a peach, but instead of a healthy core, my pit was toxic, it was burning me up, and getting all over everyone I loved, and everyone could smell it.”
― Catie Disabato, U Up?

“You can’t build a moat around the things you like and live there”
― Catie Disabato, U Up?

“You need to figure yourself out fast, though.”
― Catie Disabato, U Up?

“if you need space, become an astronaut, don’t be friends with me”
― Catie Disabato, U Up?

“Months and years from now, when I scrolled back in my feeds, would I remember how I’d actually felt, or would I remember this vibrant image that I had placed on top of my feelings like a shroud?”
― Catie Disabato, U Up?

“You’re supposed to embrace the past, no matter how rough, work your way through it and come to a peace.”
― Catie Disabato, U Up?

“I think he was scared of what his brain would produce when it was left alone.”
― Catie Disabato, U Up?

“Emotional situations that other people experience as a drizzle, I experience as a thunderstorm; a thunderstorm, as a hurricane.”
― Catie Disabato, U Up?