The Comeback
Ella Berman
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I think about another type of revenge -the quieter, less explosive kind I could inflict just by living my life in spite of him.”
“I know all about the power imbalance that exists every time you meet someone who's seen you at yourmost vulnerable, whether or not it was your choice in the first place. How you have to hope that they don't use it against you in some way.”
“I felt a vague disappointment, as if I'd worked myself up for a battle that wasn't worth it in the end.”
“Sometimes we forget that we can never really know someone else,you know, all of them. And that's okay, we're all allowed our secrets, but it does mean that ocassionally we mistake our own perspective, our own narrative, for theirs.”
“We were always living different versions of the same story.”
“People only want to hear the truth if it also happens to be what they want to hear.”
“I know that somebody hurt you. Now it's time for you to fuck shit up, baby lion.”
“For a while now, I've had this 90-minute rule, I never spend longer that than 90 minutes in someone else's company (...) I think that it's easy to pretend to be someone for 90 minutes, but after that you can't help but let your guard down.”
“There are an infinite number of things that are better than knowing exactly when you’re falling short of someone’s expectations and still being unable to stop it.”
“Everything feels like it's the end of the world until you're actually faced with the end of the world.”
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Book Keywords:
trauma, the-comeback, strength
