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1 " Monsters looked just like the rest of us. And somehow, that made them even scarier. "
― Kylie Brant , Pretty Girls Dancing
2 " They’d said it would get easier. They’d lied. "
3 " Whoever said kids could be cruel had made a gross underestimation "
4 " After Kelsey had been taken, she’d quickly learned that people had a finite tolerance for the suffering of others. Empathy went only so far before their personal comfort levels maxed out, and they started backing away from displays of grief. "
5 " If there was one thing their family dynamics proved, it was that everyone managed trauma differently. They all had their own ways of getting by. "
6 " Or if, like her, they immersed themselves in trivialities in a frantic effort to avoid a yawning inner emptiness that sometimes threatened to swallow them whole. "
7 " But if it’s true, I hope that’s gutted you every day since. I hope your life’s a misery knowing that when Kelsey needed you most, you were fucking a twenty-two-year-old and too busy to go look for her. "
8 " Dealing with the loss of Kelsey should have made her more attuned to the agony of others, "
9 " Without hope, what would be the use of going on? "
10 " Monsters didn’t live in your bedroom. They lived in your town or one just like it. They probably had jobs and neighbors and maybe waved to people passing by as they mowed their lawns. "
