Everything I Never Told You: A Novel

hugged her for a long time and whispered, “How proud I am of you. You have no idea.”

Lydia has never really had friends, but their parents have never known.

“Not with Lydia making a face like that. People will think she looks like that all the time. Pick a nice one.”

Lots of times, they say, the girls are mad at their parents and the parents don’t even know.

You can’t blame yourself if the students don’t try. And they’re not all so bad. A few got As.”

You can’t blame yourself if the students don’t try. And they’re not all so bad. A few got As.”

There is so much they need to say.

Before that she hadn’t realized how fragile happiness was, how if you were careless, you could knock it over and shatter it.

How had this all gone so wrong?

Everything that she had wanted for Lydia, which Lydia had never wanted but had embraced anyway.