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“I didn’t need to be fixed. I just needed . . . to be reminded that I was human.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“A cardboard pizza across a yellow table. A friend, lost in a memory, but alive in the taste of a half-burnt brownie. Love in a lemon pie.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“It’s because he’s ashamed of himself. He carries this pile of guilt around, caused by nothing but his own choices. And every day he doesn’t parent you, doesn’t treat you the way he should, that guilt gets heavier, and when he sees you, is reminded of you, it becomes unbearable. What he doesn’t realize is the difference between short-term and long-term pain. If he put up with his discomfort years ago in order to do right by you—if he had taken responsibility for his actions and tried to make it up to you—that guilt of his might have gone away. Instead, he’s doomed himself to slowly die beneath it.”
― Talia Hibbert, Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute

“It was good to see you again, Lemon,” before he slipped out of the conference room, and I was left, mouth open, staring after him.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip