“You think you can avoid being hurt just because you don’t put a label on it? Because I have news for you. We’re in a relationship. We have been all summer. You can call it whatever you want or you can call it nothing”—he puts a sharp emphasis on that word—“but that doesn’t make you exempt from getting hurt. We’re all hurting, Quinn. In different ways, some that we can treat with medication and therapy and some only with time. And some in ways that might never heal. Sometimes the good outweighs the bad. Sometimes those great times are so fucking great that they make the bad times a little
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