“The closer you got to someone, the more it would destroy you when they were inevitably gone.”
“It was better not to get too close to another person. The closer you got, the more likely you were to get hurt.”
“There it was, Eve supposed. There was the answer to why people got tangled up with people. Because when you were down, when you were wallowing, someone you mattered to would ask if you were okay.”
“When you love someone, you would do anything for them, not anything to destroy them.”
“That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.”
“With my mom, when someone was gone, they were gone. She didn't waste another minute thinking about them, and neither should you.”