Slonim Woods 9 Quotes

“I’d float the idea of breaking up, tell her that I felt overwhelmed, that I didn’t understand what was going on, and Raven would threaten to kill herself, then insist she could change, be better. I didn’t even know what being better would entail. I was the one who couldn’t be good enough. I couldn’t imagine that the pain and confusion Raven had been expressing might have nothing to do with me. I wanted her to be alive. That mattered more than anything, and I thought it was up to me, somehow.”
― Daniel Barban Levin, Slonim Woods 9: A Memoir

“You believe you live a normal life. You do, you believe it. So anything that happens, you make fit. This is how I lived, and it became normal, and because it was normal, everything was normal, and it was normal like that over and over”
― Daniel Barban Levin, Slonim Woods 9: A Memoir

“I felt calmer than I knew I’d feel all day, having to deal with other people.”
― Daniel Barban Levin, Slonim Woods 9: A Memoir

“A woman named Bethany was working today, and waved at me as I practically fell into the air conditioning. I had worked in the shop for a few shifts, and was slowly becoming less petrified.”
― Daniel Barban Levin, Slonim Woods 9: A Memoir

“I believed there was some quintessential person, a confident, impressive version of myself chained up inside, trapped by my fear, who said with ease the things that I imagined myself saying when I was lying awake at night.”
― Daniel Barban Levin, Slonim Woods 9: A Memoir