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It was easy to take things for granted when you thought you had everything. But it was when you started taking the most basic things for granted that life decided to teach you that you’re an ungrateful idiot.
It was just easy not to think about what you didn’t have when you had your mind on other things.
When you want something bad enough, you can always make it happen.
I had never seen a point in pretending to feel something that I didn’t, or like someone I couldn’t stand. I had dealt with enough shit like that in my life.
“I like kids. I just don’t like adults.”
“Kids are innocent. They’re sweet, they’re honest. They’re cute. They know right and wrong better than adults do. What isn’t there to like?”
Because it was easy to forget that love was complicated. That someone could love you and want the best for you, and at the same time, break you in half. There was such a thing as loving someone the wrong way. It was possible to love someone too much. Too forcefully.
Love was a weird word. What the hell was love? Everyone had such a different opinion on what it meant to them; it was hard to figure out how to use it. There was family love, friend love, romantic love….
