Unbreakable

You have to lace your fingers just right to catch your dreams. And you don’t want to lose them because they’re not easy to find again.

You can’t choose the person who really sees you—the person who knows what you’re feeling without you saying a word, the person who can make you laugh and cry and everything in between just by looking at you. The one you can’t imagine being lucky enough to have, or unlucky enough to lose.

My dad used to say the evil we enact on each other is worse than anything spirits and demons can do to us.

Nothing scared me more than the dark. I liked to see what was coming, and darkness was a place where things could hide.

Whenever I cared about someone, I imagined them leaving—the words they’d say, the way it would feel when they left. I thought if I prepared myself, it would be easier when it finally happened.

A tall girl towered over us, arms crossed tightly over her chest.