The Girl In Between (The Girl in Between, #1)

by Laekan Zea Kemp

That was one of the worst things about being sick. Someone was always waiting on you, which meant disappointing people was inevitable.

“Hey, everyone’s a little fucked up.”

My dearest Bryn, dream with your heart and the universe will bend at your will.

Because he’ll need that last thread, thin as it may be, to strangle me with later. That’s what they do. They cut you into pieces with lies and false apologies and those three little words that always manage to gut you in just the right way.

Because the truth is, you can never be friends with an ex. Not just friends.”

“And when did we become our mothers?” Dani shrugged. “I’m thinking around the time we got boobs. They sort of ruined everything.”

People don’t exist in just the light or the dark. They exist in the contrast. In the shadows where the two overlap.

it made me wonder if those strings aren’t meant to connect us to other people but to hold us together, and when one of them gets clipped, it’s not just the relationship that unravels but us.