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Therapy is a privilege. I don’t like it, though.
“I told you, I won’t be complicit in the assassination of any more spiders—what
Not my business. Not my business. Intensely not my business.
Labels have to be earned, and my pockets always seem too empty to pay up.
I cannot wait to disappoint them once again.
Fly, little bird. Be free.
I can be brave. I can be anything for noodles.
That’s more stubborn than noble
“No, you don’t, you loooove me.” “I just lost twelve years of my life!” “It’s for the best. Climate change will ravage the earth, and the machine czars will subjugate us to harvest our toes. Anyway, not to repeat myself, but—I told you so.”
“Yup. He called me early this morning. Said, You got your drunken wish, Penelope, and guess how I replied?” “ ‘I told you so,’ seventy-three times?” “Precisely.”
I savor it, the quiet pleasure of someone wanting to confide in me.
It’s a nice Saturday—because I have no plans.
Must NOT join cult.
“I do miss them, but when I’m with them, I sometimes contemplate violence.”
“Your house is so much tidier than mine,” I say, hating the awe in my voice. Lukas looks at me over his shoulder, a little judgmental. “That’s our closet.” He points at a wooden door. “You may borrow cleaning supplies.”
“Wanna try the backward pike again?” I ask her. “I tell you what to do next,” Coach grunts. “Go try that backward pike again.”
“God, please. Save us from ourselves.”
“Maybe I’ll get a Nobel Prize or something, if I help create the world in which you two suck a bit less.”
“did he mention that I taught him everything he knows about swimming?” “He taught me to play dead in the pool to scare the lifeguard.”
“You make an excellent argument for lifelong solitude.”
“Confidence is not about being able to do shit, Vandy. Confidence is showing up, and trying, and not giving up because deep in your heart you know who you are and what you’re capable of.”
“But I dared not believe them. Thought my sickbed was playing tricks on me. But no—Scarlett Vandermeer actually goes out. Color me shocked and pleased.”
CONGRATS!! FUCK YOU SWEEDY IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN TEAM USA PLS BREAK A LEG BEFORE THE OLYMPICS WE LOVE YOU
U GUYS ALREADY HAVE IKEA AND LIVABLE WAGES, LEAVE US SOMETHING
“If either of you fucks up the last dive,” Coach Sima threatens, “I swear I’m selling you to the woodspeople.”
“Don’t be too grateful.”
“I have a plane ticket for St. Louis, two days from now. We’re going to have to change that, huh?”
