” Looking back, it was the thing in his life that shamed him the most: the times he was purposefully and calculatingly mean to Alice.  It was those moments, and there had been many of them, that indicated to him that he was not a good person.  He got mad at her for many things, but it was always really for the same thing: that she possessed his love and he couldn’t seem to get it back.”

– The Last Summer (of You & Me) Ann Brashares