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It’s amazing what a family will do to make other families think everything is normal and fine.
But the lies you tell yourself during the day don’t hold up to the thoughts that come at night.
Some people solve problems, and others pay to have them solved.
No one looked at me. No one noticed or cared who I was or what I needed. In the middle of all those people, I felt lonelier than ever before.
Anyone can play the Might Have game, girl, but no one ever wins. So live your life for the future, and quit questioning the past.”
It was ironic: If I told the truth, everyone thought I was lying. If I lied the right way, then people would actually speak to me.
perhaps the new you could learn a thing or two from the old version. You can always unbottle caution afterward, but it’s impossible to cram it back in when it’s already loosed.”
“Men do things for basic motivations, and the most basic of these is greed. People want what they cannot or do not have.
“It’s one thing to think it, and another thing to do it. My gut says you’d freeze. Too busy worrying about what the right thing to do would be.
Men, being men, would be so much more likely to listen to each other than they would to listen to me, a woman.
“People lie about a lot of things. Sometimes it’s the best choice.
how many times had I relied upon men to save me, only to be disappointed?
“Feelings,” Holmes said at last. “I do it for the power it gives me. It’s addictive, and I grow to crave it when I don’t have it. It’s a game. Picking out a victim. Seeing how much of her trust I can gain. Testing how much I can reveal of my true self without her catching on.
