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"...just because you can handle something doesn't mean it's good for you."

"I also waited to feel like myself, as if it would land on me all at once, this feeling like I was me again because I was home. And it didn't come."

"I hadn't come to Promise with a 'teachable heart,' and I had no idea how to go about making the heart I did have into the other version."

"I could see her heaving great sobs through the window, unable to look at me, or unwilling, and I felt that finally, finally, I had actually done something awful enough to deserve that reaction."

"'Well, my parents died,' I said, 'And tragedy makes you age in cat years. So I'm technically older than you.'"

"Coley didn't answer me. We listened to the pine boughs shake free more rain. It was growing darker with every word I wasted."

"'We're friends who are figuring shit out,' I said, which at that point was the most honest and direct thing I'd said to Coley about me and my feelings, well, ever."

"... But I just kept thinking, Mom and Dad don't know about us. They don't know, so we're safe--even though there was no more Mom and Dad to know about anything."