Release

by Patrick Ness

Why did everyone no longer a teenager automatically dismiss any feeling you had then? Who cared if he’d grow out of it? That didn’t make it any less true in those painful and euphoric days when it was happening. The truth was always now, even if you were young. Especially if you were young.

It was so much easier to be loved than to have to do any of the desperate work of loving.

Everything was always so clear in books and movies. Everyone always knew their reasons. But real life was such a mess.

“I used to think this was how everyone’s life was. That everyone sat around the dinner table talking about the End Times.” “We do. We just mean another Republican presidency.”

HA

“They’re your parents. They’re meant to love you because. Never in spite.”