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by Kiersten White

Her entire life has been after. But there was a before, wasn’t there? Is she living in another before right now, or will she forever be stuck in an infinite after?

I was evaporating, becoming less and less solid until I didn’t even know who I was. If I was.

because holding someone else’s fear means opening her shell even more. Letting her own fear out.

It was meant to make a point about how we trick ourselves into feeling things, but really, it made a point about how we trick other people into feeling things.

THIS

He looked at the world and felt it owed him more than he had, and when that didn’t materialize, he took himself out along with everyone who had tried to love him, who might have been happier without him.

Hope is exhausting, and Mack is nearly spent.

To the youngest generations we’ve tasked with saving us all: You shouldn’t have to. I’m so sorry.