“But sometimes playing it safe is bullshit.” Eli said the words like a judge delivering a verdict. “It’s like cancer. Sometimes, you have to kill all the cells, the good ones and the bad ones, and start over again from scratch. And that’s the part that hurts the worst, the time when you just want to fucking give up because of all the pain, but you can’t. You have to be strong because you know once you’re on the other side, it’ll be even better than it was before. And you can be happy again.
