" I was wondering if I could talk to you?” I fiddled with one of the drawstrings of my hoodie [...]

“Talk?” He stared up at me with a blank expression. I hated blank expressions, because people only used them when they didn’t want to show what they were really feeling. And I really sucked at trying to figure out what people were feeling.

“Yeah,” I said, rather condescendingly. “You know, that thing you do where you open your mouth and words come out? "

― Amanda Abram , The Importance of Getting Revenge