“What was it like... to have someone who knew you would always return and who welcomed you with open arms?”

“No matter what you do, someone always knew you would.”

“Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to have someone who always knew what you needed.”

“I try to imagine keeping something like that a secret for my whole life. It would be like always wearing a mask over your face, which everyone believed was the real you. You would be the only person who knew it wasn't--and who knew that you could never take it off.”

“She was so beautiful, like someone who you will never meet, but always dream of meeting, like someone who is too good for you.”

“A coach is someone who tells you what you don't want to hear, who has you see what you don't want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be.”