“You’re 18, you don’t know what you want. And you won’t know what you want until you’re 45, and even if you get it, you’ll be too old to use it!” - Walter Stratford (10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
A hiss, few whispers and my mother would go back to sleep as if nothing out of ordinary makes a habit of disturbing us every night. "It's a habit," she'd try to placate me whenever I'd lose my color. "You grow used to it." But I couldn't..