Amie

“She has always vacillated between feeling things too deeply and not feeling them at all, so she learned, at a young age, how to steel herself; she could stop herself from feeling, she found, if she tried hard enough. It became a muscle she could flex, hardening herself against any unwanted onslaught of disappointment, and it works, too, to prevent crying in public.”
― Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was