“People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake.”
“People don’t die because of loyalty.”They don’t?” She smiled. “Religion? Government? Are we not loyal to such things, sometimes to the death?”Eddie shrugged.Better,” she said, “to be loyal to one another.”
“Sometimes things get broken and people make mistakes. It's just what happens. And then, if you're lucky, they get fixed again, before it's too late.”
“Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.”
“But if they loved each other so much, couldn’t they talk it out?” Toby gave an exasperated laugh. “You get into habits. Ways of being with certain people.”
“One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.”