““She pulls upright, wiping her face 'But that’s another one of those clichés I don’t get. The light. I feel it sometimes. It makes sense that you have to beat back the darkness, but I just don’t understand why there’s darkness in the first place. Sometimes I feel like the world has fractured into a million pieces and they’re closing in on me, and I have to push each piece back with my hands and my feet and my head to keep it from squeezing me to death.””
