“I want you to realize that I don’t love you but I need you. I need you to keep sanity in my head instead of letting insanity stain someone’s bathroom floor red. I need you to keep me from grabbing bottles of cheap wine at the liquor store. I need you to put me to sleep when my veins are being swallowed by too much alcohol. I need you so that you can tell me I look pretty when I look at myself in the mirror. I need you to stop asking me if “I love you” because to be quite honest with you, I don’t love you. I want you to realize that you help me love myself and that’s why I need you.”
- Alexa Evangelista, the book I’ll never finish writing
