The Book Eaters

by Sunyi Dean

“Love doesn’t have a cost. It’s just a choice you make, the way you choose to keep breathing or keep living. It’s not about worth and it’s not about price. Those concepts don’t apply.”

“Sometimes, when people hurt us, we can’t be angry at them even when we should be. Sometimes, the scale of what’s been done to us is so big and painful that acknowledging it is too overwhelming. There’s nothing you can do about that kind of pain except to ignore it, shut it away. Or shovel it sideways onto someone else, like he did to you.”