Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it.

In the end, though, maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.

But unfriendly is usually one of those things you pick up on right away. You know, like B.O. There's no hiding it if it's there.

Shit," Delia said. "I mean, shoot. No, actually, I mean shit. I really do.

It’s so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself

Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. it doesn't just catch up: it overtakes, blotting out the future, the landscape, the very sky, until there is no path left except that which leads through it, the only one that can ever get you home.