“And some small gnarled place inside me hated her for her weakness, for her neglect, for the months she had put us through. I had taken a step back from my mother, put up a wall to protect myself from needing her, and nothing was ever the same between us again.”
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“Don't. Don't let's pretend when there's no one around.”
“I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone.”
“For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.”
“I thought he wanted it, anyway," I say. "Not like this," Haymitch says. "He wanted it to be real.”
“What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness?”