“ My father is an apparition, and my mother is semiconscious. ”
I'm not mean, I'm honest. Nobody is ever straightforward. But sometimes people need to hear the truth.
~ Jessica Warman
Sometimes kindness doesn’t beget anything but misery. My mother didn’t have to learn that until she was in her thirties, I’ve known it nearly all my life. I’m not sure which of us is better off.
I realise now that I wanted to disappear. To get so lost that nobody ever found me. To go so far away that I'd never be able to make my way home again. But I have no idea why.
Cops, I've learned, are like vampires; they can't come in unless you invite them.
