Chapter 21
“…the forgiveness was still hard to come by.”
“Sometimes the girl inside me – the daughter of my father – is really opinionated.”
For better or for worse.
“I can’t leave Boston.”
“Everyone deserves another chance.”
“I just can’t wrap my head around this.”
“…the same view as the rooftop deck.”
Chapter 22
Newspaper
Chapter 23
The Boston magnet
“I’ve had it forever.”
“My heart feels like it begins beating in reverse.”
Bib’s
“He is overeating.”
“He is everything!”
“I become diluted with rage.”
“He knows what he has done.”
“So I memorized it.”
“I hate myself just as much as I hate him.”
Chapter 24
“I am my mother.”
“I feel submerged.”
“I want to wash away the last four hours of my life.”
Chapter 25
“Dear Ellen,…”
Naked truth
“The death of the one.”
“…in the midst of all my hatred….”
“the difference between the two of us…”
Chapter 26
“I scale over these huge waves…”
“Depp down I knew you were right.”
“…how hurt I am that he never came back to me. If …………………… “
“…giving me a buffer before I’m forced to confront everything.”
Chapter 27
29 missed texts
“I turn stone cold.”
“…one day I’ll have to admit that to him.”
Chapter 28
“my only safe zone right now”
“…sweeping shit under the rug just like……”
“My husband happened. ……………………………………. “
Cassie
“If Atlas had given me any reason to believe there was a chance between us …………”
Considerate Atlas
“…two separate heartaches …”
Chapter 29
“…she reads me so well.”
“If you take him back…”
Chapter 30
“It’s pounding because…”
“I’m simply an innocent bystander.”
“my body becomes unresponsive to his.”