1
They were a couple in a way that didn't exclude anyone but seemed superior to every other relationship in the room.Melissa Bank
2
Up until that moment, I'd been at the earliest stage of love, when you feel it will turn you into the person you want to be. Now, his gentle voice and sage advice took me to a later stage: I felt I needed to pretend to be a better person than I was so he'd keep loving me. This was hard because it made me hate him.Melissa Bank
3
There are things that two people say in the middle of the night That don't make sense to a third at breakfast.Melissa Bank
4
I'd already figured out that not understanding my failings was another one of my failings.Melissa Bank
5
Until that moment, it hadn't occurred to me that my grades and test scores over the years were anything more than individual humiliations; I hadn't realized that one day all of them would add up and count against me.Melissa Bank