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As much as I hate pain, it’s important. It lets you know something is wrong. It makes you panic when you need to.
“You know, there’s a kind of predator that disguises itself as prey. That’s the most dangerous kind to people like us.� I pause. I swear my towel grows colder against my neck. “People like us?� “People who refuse to break under any number of harsh strikes and any amount of loud words, but crumple as soon as someone touches us gently or speaks to us softly.�
The entitled assholes of the world are sustained by girls who forgive too easily. And there’s nothing I’d like to rid the world of more than entitled assholes.
“Do you know how karma really works, Shimin?� I snarl. “It’s not something that can be prayed into existence or counted on to fall from the sky. It has to be hand-delivered.
Perks of refusing to play by the rules: you don’t have to choose between the boy who’d torture a man to death with you and the boy who’d welcome you back with pastries after.
