“I lie to all of them. I lie to Gansey. I lie to Blue. I lie to my professors. It’s like I can’t stop. It’s like I, it’s like … I don’t want this version to have anything the other version had, good or bad. So any time I need a past, I just make something up. New parents, new house, new memories, new reasons for how I lost my hearing, new me. I don’t know what I’m doing anymore. Shit. You were, like, the place I stored all the reality in. Then I had to start lying about you, too, and it just all, it just all …”
