“I didn’t want to go, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t want to be invited.”
“I realized that it was not that I didn’t want to go on without him. I did. It was just that I didn’t know why I wanted to go on”
“I didn’t go to the water park because it was raining, and I didn’t want to get wet.”
“I told you I didn’t want to go. Of course, I really did want to go, but I just said I didn’t want to go so you’d beg me to go and I could feel needed. I’m needy like that.”
“You drugged me,”“I didn’t want you to feel it, Merit.” His voice was soft. “You’d been attacked; you hadn’t consented. I didn’t want you to have to go through it. I didn’t want you to have to remember it.”
“But if I didn’t want to be alone, then why didn’t I want to be with anyone else?”