They’re nice people, your family, but they are, at their core, conventional. You make an effort to appear conventional, but I know Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the humdrum routine of ordinary life. Your family will never understand this, so I gave them some words they would understand.

lizzymaxia:

“The more [he] hurt me… the more I felt gratitude that he was actually paying attention to me. That in, in tormenting me, he was attempting to correct what I knew to be wrong with myself. One day, after a particularly brutal lesson that left me in a very bad way, a teacher asked me who was responsible. I said I’d fallen down the stairs. Funny, the things that we do for the people that we care about.”