This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.
It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.
I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.
Sobriety is okay enough," Denny says, "but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?
Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.
They assume she was once gorgeously beautiful. Because now she looks so—bad.