All your perfects

This one hits so close to home. So very close. So many things I could identify with Quinn, we might as well be kindred spirits. I felt my soul crushed every time Quinn broke down, I cried along as she battled with her inner self, and I wept for that one single defect we both share.

To be so deeply affected by this book... I had no inkling that it will happen. But then, as the story progressed, I found myself wearing Quinn's shoes. And my heart breaks, over and over again. My heart breaks for Quinn, for Graham and for their marriage. Some situation, some monologues are so eerily similar to what I've been through, I had to stop and take a deep breath. The crying-in-the-shower, the withdrawal, the emotional roller coaster, the avoidance... it's so familiar, it hurts.

“Avoidance sounds like such a harmless word, but that one word can cause some severe damage to a relationship.”

And yet, avoidance is the only way we know to shield ourselves from the hurt we know will come.