Peter Cabot Gets Lost (The Cabots, #2)

by Cat Sebastian

“So while your concern is admirable and this conversation, however much I hate to admit it, was probably a good idea, your worries are unfounded, and you are very dumb.”

The room was silent except for the sound of their breathing, and Caleb was again assailed by the conviction that this mattered, that he had to say something, something important and profound, but also that he definitely shouldn’t say anything at all because this was all a terrible doomed disaster of an idea.

“You’re allowed to be imperfect. Anybody who expects perfection secretly likes being disappointed in people. You’re good enough exactly the way you are. Everything else is a lie.”

There were enough tragically stupid people in the world without having anyone indulge in recreational stupidity.

Maybe spending time with someone who really liked you let you see yourself reflected in their eyes, even just a little.

and felt wildly and uncontrollably homesick. He thought that maybe he’d always feel like that when he talked to his mother, but that maybe it would soften when this new place felt like more of a home. He used to think that he had left behind everything that was precious to him, but he had found other things that mattered and would keep on doing so.