6 Quotes by Karen Fortunati

The world turned upside down - in a good way - for one black velvet night.

Years of best-friendness, sisterhood, reduced to a complete communication blackout.

But there were and are no words for that particular state of hell. I couldn’t tell her that I was submerged. Numbed. Unable to feel anything. My spectrum of emotions had been obliterated.

Nothing had happened to me. I was born with a defective mind. As my father’s sole contribution to my life knifed its way into my mother’s egg, it unleashed a faulty genetic code that warped the normal brain development of fetus me, growing wrong inside my mother. I was a thing that should never have been.

And before you make that decision to confide, you need to evaluate the friend and the relationship. Have they proved themselves worthy of you?

And someone who has never felt it can never understand what the absence of emotion feels like. It is a hopelessness of incomprehensible, unspeakable weight.