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‘Don’t lie to me and I won’t lie to you. Ever.’

‘He wasn’t used to being disobeyed, and I wasn’t used to being told what to do.’

‘I realised that I’d gotten so used to that weight, I stopped noticing how much of myself I’d dedicated to carrying it.’

‘Shame is a way of life here. It's stocked in the vending machines, stuck like gum under the desks, spoken in the morning devotionals.’

“Why can't you do one thing that's not some fucking emotional manipulation gesture from fifteen million miles away?”

"Do you think love is just someone arranging their entire life around whatever you want?"

‘there was nothing extraordinary about Shara’

someone had to say it, she was pissing me off.

deserved.

‘I saw myself in the rear-view mirror of a person I’ve loved since I was thirteen, and I felt endless.’

‘It’s hard to learn everything you know about life in the same room and then pack everything up one day and never see it again.’

‘the real world is where people who hate high school go to be happy.’

“I’ve never lived anywhere else. I don’t know how.”

‘I gave up everything for this. I did everything right. I lost people, I pushed them away, I learned to live without the other halves of my heart because this is what I wanted. I climbed every mountain they put in front of me, conquered every single obstacle, and this is how it ends? With me spluttering out? Fading?’

‘they’re allowed to be ambitious. They’re allowed to fight. They look to me as an example and I let them.’