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“For once in your life,” she ordered, “just let go.”
“Some people like having their friends around when things get tough, and some people need to be alone.
I needed to do something—I just didn’t know what.
What will be will be—in time.
A profiler, an emotion reader, and a lie detector went to a party.…
“‘To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.’”
Most people built walls to protect themselves. Dean did it to protect everyone else.
“If you can’t keep them from hitting you,” Michael said, “you make them hit you. At least that way, you’re ready. At least that way, it’s not a surprise.”
“Well, this is awkward,” Lia commented, looking from one boy to the other. “Are you two going to start braiding each other’s hair next?”
It’s not the bad memories that tear a person apart. It’s the good ones.
You do what you need to do to survive.
“Don’t think about something that makes you feel small and scared and like you’re stuck in a tunnel with no light at the end.”
I’d spent so long trying not to choose, trying not to feel, and in an instant, I felt something inside of me break, like floodwaters bursting through a dam.
Some people said that broken bones grew back stronger. On the good days, I told myself that was true, that each time the world tried to break me, I became a little less breakable. On the bad days, I suspected that I would always be broken, that parts of me would never be quite right—and that those were the parts that made me good at the job.
“When the odds are bad,” she said, removing something from one of them, “you change the rules.”
