It’s not until she sits up and wipes her eyes that I realize she’s crying. My words are like knives; they cut into the people I love. It will be worse if you touch her, I think, a worse lie. But I ignore this thought, shifting down the bench to put my arm around her – my daughter – and as I do, she weeps openly, pressing her face against my damp shirt.
-Adam Haslett
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