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Just got to the part about Lee’s mom. Jesus Christ.

“Nobody knows why you go to a picnic to be uncomfortable when it is so easy and pleasant to eat at home.”

“How the guilt could form around you like a skin, like armor but all the sharp edges turned inward, cutting you every time you moved, until you finally just got numb from it as a way of staying alive.”

Damn. Can’t wait to devour this book. Thank you, Keith Rosson.

“ It’s a dull grinding ache like a blackened tooth begging to be pulled, begging for the hot release of a more intense pain”.

This book is killing me in the best way.

“But I’m not good at saying that I feel hurt or forgotten or rejected. There had been no room for that growing up. I’m more skilled at burying those emotions.”

Lily King kills me with simple sentences like no other.