“For didn’t everyone have secret parts and shadows?”
“Everyone has light around them, except for you. You have shadows.”
“Everyone has a secret, but when it is bound by shame we're forced to live within the darkest circles of our crumbling masks; unable to find the light of the coming dawn; forever locked in the shadows of our own regrets.”
“I didn't point out that Courtney and I were hardly BFFs. In Mom's world everyone under the age of eighteen was friends with everyone else, like we were all part of some secret society of minors.”
“It was part of their mission as a secret society--as it is part of the mission of most secret societies, actually--to not be entirely secret.”
“On twitter, you may have a zero follower; but in real life, this is not possible because everyone has a shadow!”