“Getting Over Garrett Delaney” by Abby McDonald - Quodid

You're not in love with me, not really, you just love the way I always made you feel. Like you were the center of my world. Because you were. I would have done anything for you.

—Abby McDonald in Getting Over Garrett Delaney

love relationships feelings

I can't keep doing this to myself, getting my hopes up so high, only to have them come crashing down. I can't keep waiting for him to come to his senses, having my whole emotional state rest on what he decides. What if he never wakes up to how perfect we'd be together? What if I spend another year pining for him — or longer even? In a terrible flash, I see my future stretching out before me: waiting for his calls, rearranging my life around college visits, and decoding texts and instant messages like they could be something real, something true. This isn't love; this is pure torment.

—Abby McDonald in Getting Over Garrett Delaney

love hope relationship waiting

How could I have been so stupid? All this time, I've been certain he feels the same way about me. I was so sure that my feelings were requited that I'd convinced myself he was just getting up the courage to confess. But I was wrong.

—Abby McDonald in Getting Over Garrett Delaney

I'm used to talking to him all the time, about the most meaningless stuff. To have him gone feels like a loss, an absence haunting me every day. Without him, there's just the empty space that used to be filled with laughter and friendship and comfort. Can you really blame me for finding it so hard to let go?

—Abby McDonald in Getting Over Garrett Delaney

The truth is, I wished for the same thing I always do, when I let myself wish at all. Him.

—Abby McDonald in Getting Over Garrett Delaney

About Abby McDonald

Abby McDonald is a New York Times bestselling British author and screenwriter, who also writes under the pen name Abigail Haas.

[from Wikipedia]

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