“I wonder if she would be hurt if I said I don’t really feel anything at all towards her anymore. That I can’t remember why losing her friendship had felt like losing the world, or why that friendship seemed so profound, never to be repeated. Now, it only strikes me as embarrassing, like any other outgrown phase.”

“I wonder if she would be hurt if I said I don’t really feel anything at all towards her anymore. That I can’t remember why losing her friendship had felt like losing the world, or why that friendship seemed so profound, never to be repeated. Now, it only strikes me as embarrassing, like any other outgrown phase.”

— Kate Elizabeth Russell