It feels like I’m trapped in quicksand. The more I struggle, the more I sink. So I stop struggling. I stop trying to free myself; because the more I struggle the scarier it becomes. Then—and only then did panic yield long enough for a numbness to spread and stick to me like a second skin.
Jannet Casas, Perspective Change
anst, coming-of-age, coming-of-age-novel, teen-fiction