People Like Us

he has no idea what it takes to love a person who does bad things. It changes you.

“Everything about me is a lie and I’m terrified everyone will find out.”

Does someone who does one bad thing, even one really bad thing, deserve bad things to happen to them?

“People never believe someone they love could do something cruel.”

Sometimes you can be in the middle of everything and still be completely alone.

If you say something enough times, it becomes true.

“I can’t undo what I did. I can’t make her disappear.”

“I can make myself disappear.”

“I don’t want you to love me out of habit. I don’t want you stuck with that. It’ll ruin you, Spence. I am not worth holding on to.”

“I really am always going to love you.”

“As a friend,” I say, rolling my eyes.

“As you,” he says seriously. “No matter what either of us ever does.”

Resilient is the wrong word for someone who attracts tragedy like a magnet but survives to watch her loved ones die.