I might not be ready to pour out my feelings to the world, but I’d had enough of trying to ignore them.

“Everybody has a story, Alison," he said. "Everybody has things they need to hid…”

“I hate it when people talk like friendship is less than other kinds of - as tho…”

“Once upon a time there was a girl who was special. This is not her story. Unles…”

“So I pushed the bitterness down, into the black pit of my stomach along with my…”