Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels.

But you can’t live your life worried about dying all the time. If you do, you’re dead already.

How did we get to this place where we had to be tough all the time and never said how much we loved each other?

My mistake was assuming that when I got to college, people would not be such assholes.

Sarcasm was a weapon for children.

Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels.

The TV said you should ignore bullies and they would stop harassing you. In practice this worked about half the time. The other half, you ended up with two tall boys shadowing you through a trailer park, their fingers taking little nips at your clothes, like dogs.