Grace Fitzpatrick

“I was happier," Adam says, "when I thought she was dead."
"You don't mean that. Don't say things like that, man. Once you say that kind of ... you can't take it back--"
"Oh, I mean it," Adam says. "I really, really mean it." He finally looks at me. Fists clenched. "Thinking you were dead," he says to me, "was so much better. It hurt so much less than this."
The walls are moving. I'm seeing spots, blinking at nothing.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me