This is what y'all were obsessing over during quarantine?
A book about domestic abuse?
Like, be fa' real .... wtf is wrong with yall?
The amount of times I had to pause in shocked realization
to look at the cover
and process what I was reading
It was phenomenally written.
Colleen Hoover is easily an author I'd read more of
specifically because she loosely based it off her life, and went into detail about it
I admire that so much
Harnessing your experience and giving it voice
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It made me question though..
A comment Lily had made in the book - "What if..."
If she had been honest, loud and clear
as confused as she may have been in that moment
voicing her lived reality could've made a shift
there's no way to know for sure of course
but you need to try
to say the hard things
if for nothing at all but to free you
always easier said than done
but blessed to have planted the seed nonetheless
Hoover Words I Loved...
* This was borrowed from the BK library so I couldn't highlight as much as I normally would*
C1
"I pause. I'm not sure I ever admitted that to myself" (17)
C2
"But somtimes you can't control where your mind goes. You just have to train it not to go there anymore." (37)
C8
"He probably wants me to belueve the way he treats my mother is normal." (104)
"But some things, like trees, are strong enough to do it by just relying on themselves and nobody else." (106)
"Not everyone is homeless because they choose to be. They're hoeless because there isn't enough help to go around." (118)
C17
"'You saved my life, Lily .... And you weren't even trying." (212)
"I'll keep pretending to swim, when really all I'm doing is floating. Barely keeping my head above water." (217)
C35
"And as hard as the choice is, we break the pattern before the pattern breaks us." (360)
• 22 September 2023 | Brooklyn, NYC •