“Mr. Lazar says, "Hearing loss is just that, a loss. It can be just as traumatic as losing a loved one or a pet, and it takes time to move on. So I wonder, have you all really given yourselves, and especially Rayne, enough time to grieve her loss?" Hardcopy pg. 287”
“Phineas had thought of me as an extension of himself.”
“A friend is not an enabler; love doesn’t always look like agreement.”
“Girls in her grade sometimes seemed like they were in another orbit, a place she didn't live yet.”
“The closer you are to someone, the more it hurts when they leave.”