Maybe growing up was really nothing more than growing away: from your old life, from your old self, from all those things that kept you tethered to your past.
—Jennifer E. Smith in This is What Happy Looks Like
You could tell a lot about someone by the way they carried a secret—by how safe they kept it, how soon they told, the way they acted when they were trying to keep it from spilling out.
—Jennifer E. Smith in This is What Happy Looks Like
He'd mistaken loneliness for independence, and had become so good at closing himself off from the world that it took an e-mail to remind him what it was like to have a real conversation.
—Jennifer E. Smith in This is What Happy Looks Like