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“Why should I always have to be kind?”
“Sorry,” she repeats, even though she has generally disabused herself of the feminine habit of apology.
He used to be her first audience. But the thought of giving her husband an excuse to rip her work to shreds, under the guise of helping her, now feels about as unappealing as foot fungus.
a picturesque pit stop on the way to exactly nowhere.
She doesn’t understand why more credit isn’t given in this family for being good.
The worst part about being an older sister is the sinking feeling that everything is always somehow her fault.
she doesn’t have the right to tell him how to process his feelings, how to interact with this new smaller, isolated world in which he now finds himself because of her.
your spirit will be your superpower someday. Just watch.”
nascent
When your body is in crisis, time slows. Sam remembers hearing once that this phenomenon actually occurs because the brain takes more snapshots during a crisis, clicking like a camera, gathering information, anything that might be useful, anything to save itself.
She’ll stay with her sister, no matter what. Even if it means they die.
after all this time, she wasn’t the monster—he was.
His children can be motherless, or their mother can be childless. Is that the question?
