I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead, for the first time in a while, it felt like it already was full.

You’re always a kid around your parents… Unless they’re acting like children. Then you don’t get the chance.

Fine...a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.

As he heard me approach, he quickly leaped up, grabbing a nearby loaf of bread and holding it in front of him as if struck by a sudden desire to make a sandwich.

And so really, you have given me no choice but to take you shopping by force.” She sighed, then reached up, dropping her sunglasses down from their perch on her head to cover her eyes. “Do you even realize how happy the average teenage girl would be in your shoes? I have a credit card. We’re at the mall. I want to buy you things. It’s like adolescent nirvana.” - Cora

You should have seen your face," she said, her breath hot in my ear. "Sa-woooon.

Oh darling, don't be bitter. It's the first instinct of the weak.