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344 pages, Paperback
First published February 14, 2019
"Cara, you need to calm down"
"It doesn't change anything, Ren"
"I can't do this, Ren"
"We all have baggage, Cara. I know that as well as anyone."
"I can't be a friend to you, Cara. I tried. It's just too difficult."
"You don't need to say it, Fred"
"Cara, he's the one who told you he wanted distance."

She holds a hand up to stop me. "You're privileged, Cara. Don't confuse luck with circumstance - they are not the same thing."
“Your friend might be gone, but everything you built with her lives on. She’ll be a marker for you –for what you expect from friendships. For how you carry yourself into new experiences, things you weren’t able to do with her. For how you love. She’ll be with you, inside you, for the rest of everything.”
“With that one look I try to tell him a thousand things. That I can’t be his friend either. That friendship was maybe where it started but isn’t where it ended. That the ending part is almost more than I can bear, but I’ll do it. For him. Because there aren’t words for what he’s done for me. And if he was only meant to lift me to here, then that’s enough. After all he’s got me to the landing platform where I can lift myself –and for that I can excuse everything else.
So, most of all, I try to tell Hector that I forgive him, like he forgave me.”