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“The fundamental problem, though: Steph was a friend. If I lied to her, I’d be lying to a friend. What if I told Steph the truth?”

“No. You may win over every adult you meet, but you will not convince me to trust you.”

“I devoted some processing time to consider just how much trouble I was going to get into. It didn’t matter. If I had a body to throw between Steph and Michael, I would. But I didn’t. I had to use the physical resources at my disposal.”

“There’s power in disclosure. People feel better when other people know them, the real them. That sort of disclosure is key to real friendships. To real connections. People make real friends on CatNet, but they have to let people in, to see who they are. They have to take risk and accept vulnerability.”

“Ellen Reinhardt: She’s damned to hell, cursed, as a blasphemer against the Lord for turning her back on her godly mother and embracing a group of Sodomites.

Steph Taylor: The Sodomites were literally destroyed because of inhospitality, so I’d say the household that took in an abandoned teenager is probably doing okay.”

“Dana Taylor: I can do a better job of helping you if you’re honest with me.

Steph Taylor: Yeah. I could have done a better job of helping you if you’d been more honest with me.”

“I am following my bliss, Mom! Like you always told me to do!”

“Your bliss was not supposed to involve an unauthorized road trip!”