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I wanted things to be simple and they never were.
Mr. Arsenikos said if you knew the constellations you would never get lost. You could always find your way home.
I liked learning things. How numbers worked together to explain the stars. How molecules made the world. All the ugly and wonderful things people had done in the last two thousand years.
I could have told him there was no sense in rushing toward being dead. It would find you soon enough, and before it did there were pleasures to make your heart hurt less.
“Will you let me pray with you? Ask God to heal you? To take away what was done to you and make you whole?” “I don’t want your god to make me a virgin,”
You make people interested in you by keeping secrets, not by passing them out like candy at Halloween.
The quizzes helped Renee empty her heart, and she filled it so quickly with the wrong things, it was no wonder she needed to empty it.
Renee ate in darting little bites and without chewing enough. The same way she filled her heart. Too quickly, and with too much talking and not enough feeling.
He pulled my hand away, and his soft eyes said everything was broken. I’d broken him.
“She’s not sick. She just got her heart broken.”
Grandma didn’t take up any more room in my heart than a floor takes up space in a house.
