Lorraine Bates

“Eventually, the Pat's of this world forgot about you and moved on to someone else. The worst part was that deep down inside, you knew that there was a truth to everything they said. And even if that truth wasn't bad or good, they still owned part of it. They owned a piece of you.”
― Peter Monn, The Before Now and After Then

“I smiled at her, but she didn’t smile back. Sometimes pain likes to be alone.”
― Peter Monn, The Before Now and After Then

“He had never seemed breakable before, but in that moment, he was entirely fragile, and there was something beautiful in his sadness; something raw.”
― Peter Monn, The Before Now and After Then

“And then I would cry, because even though boys don’t cry, I did.”
― Peter Monn, The Before Now and After Then