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“Maybe you can talk about how... I don't know, how his laughter sounds. If it's rougher in the mornings, or lower on the phone, or how he always tips his head back when he finds something funny. How—how you can only see his dimples when he smiles at something real. How you're jealous of everyone who loves him, who knew him before you did.”
― Ann Liang, This Time It's Real

“Once is an accident. Twice is a coincidence. Thrice is a pattern.”
― Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

“And I don't know how to make people stay; I never have.”
― Ann Liang, This Time It's Real

“But insincerity is easy. Bullshitting your way through things is easy. It doesn't require any emotional attachment; there aren't any stakes involved. It can't hurt you, because you never believed in any of it anyway.

But telling the truth—saying exactly what you mean, how you feel, to the people you care about most... That's one of the hardest things in the world. Because you have to trust them. Trust that they won't hurt you, even when they have the power to.”
― Ann Liang, This Time It's Real