Lock Every Door

by Riley Sager

Because here’s the thing about being poor—most people don’t understand it unless they’ve been there themselves. They don’t know what a fragile balancing act it is to stay afloat and that if, God forbid, you momentarily slip underwater, how hard it is to resurface.

That’s another thing most people don’t understand—how quick others are to judge. And make assumptions. And presume your financial predicament is the result of stupidity, laziness, years of bad choices.

Never get old, Jules. It’s horrible. No one tells you that until it’s too fucking late.”

I know that from my own experience. We grow up expecting our parents to live forever until, one day, they’re suddenly gone.”

I’m starting to think I don’t belong anywhere.

One time is an anomaly. Two times is a coincidence. Three times is proof.