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The past already has its hold on me. There’s nothing to do but face it.
“I like knowing that you exist. It doesn't make me feel any less lonely, because life is lonely, but it makes me feel a lot less alone.”
― Emergency Contact
― Emergency Contact
“Loving someone was traumatizing. You never knew what would happen to them out there in the world. Everything precious was also vulnerable.”
― Emergency Contact
― Emergency Contact
“Penny thought of this Korean saying for when you really, really liked something. You'd say it 'fit your heart exactly.' Sam fit her heart exactly.”
― Emergency Contact
― Emergency Contact
“It wasn't a romance; it was too perfect for that. With texts there were only the words and none of the awkwardness. They could get to know each other completely and get comfortable before they had to do anything unnecessarily overwhelming like look at each other's eyeballs with their eyeballs.”
― Emergency Contact
― Emergency Contact
“Some people’s coping mechanisms were all about festering and secrecy and ruminating until you grew yourself a nice little tumor in your heart with a side of panic attack. Different strokes.”
― Emergency Contact
― Emergency Contact
Q&A with Susane Colasanti
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My sixth teen novel, KEEP HOLDING ON, comes out on May 31. To celebrate, I'll be stopping by to chat with you from May 16 to June 8. Good times. ...more
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