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Our ability to create waned in our instinct to ruin.
I didn’t know who I was when I wasn’t trying to be someone else.
Girls compete against each other, like the sunflowers my mom tried to plant in her garden, the ones that never grew. She planted them too close together and they all vied for the same sun, choked green stems and sulking yellow faces.
“To truly destroy a character, you have to know him inside out. You have to know what means the most to him. Take that away, and you can do anything to him. Kill him off, even. Because he has already lost everything that matters.” Sully raised her hand. “So you’re saying the only way to dismantle someone is to take away what they love.”
“We’re together, and we’re worse.”
My first thought: We’ve gone too far. My second thought: We could go further.
