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“My mom used to say that sometimes just saying something aloud was enought to make it true. I wasn't so sure about that.”
“Hours of being asked:"Do you understand?" But for all of her answers, she never got around the one question I had wanted to ask."What does it feel like?”
“If I wasn't the same person I had been six years ago, how could I expect her to be?”
“Nope," he whispered, when I tried to tug it away. "Mine now.”
“When a girl cries, few things are more worthless than a boy.”
“I didn't have time for tears anymore. I had questions.”
“This time should have been no different. But it was.”
“But there's a beginning in an end, you know? It's true that you can't reclaim what you had, but you can lock it up behind you. Start fresh.”
“My mom said once that education was a privilege not afforded to everyone, but she was wrong--it wasn't a privilege. It was our right. We had the right to a future.”
“—I don't want to lose you—Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?”
“She shows up everywhere, at any time, like she can guesswhat we’re going to do before we do it.”“The lady is good at what she does,” Liam confirmed.“Can you please not compliment the person trying ...”
“Oh my God, Green,” I heard Chubs say from somewhere in the room. “Just take the damn socksand put the kid out of his misery.”
