The Companion Quotes

“Lies pile up.
And then they bury you.”
― Katie Alender, The Companion

“She intertwined our fingers, so we were holding hands. We did this a lot. Sometimes I felt more like we were sisters than just friends. I felt like soemthing connected us under our skin, inside our brains. Like maybe Laura's cruelty had taught us how to see the parts of ourselves and of each other that noone else could see and we might always be hurting, we might always be damaged, but we were more than that, too. We were the parts of us that saved ourselves, who'd enough, who'd chosen to live. I knew it was as hard for Agatha as it was for me. I knew she had nightmares, too. But when I woke up in a panic, she was there to remind me I was safe. And I did the same for her. Agatha took a deep, searching breath. Her hand squeezed mine, and I could tell we had come to that quiet part of the day when the hurt was closest to the surface. But we had each other. We weren't alone. And that made all the difference.”
― Katie Alender, The Companion