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Quote #10
It keeps you from stumbling through another set of half lies to explain to your mother why you're walking to a ruined house with a boy who's more afraid of police than of wildfires. (44.49)
Her dead phone might give her a brief reprieve, but it doesn't solve the problem entirely; it's more of a bandage. Pearl likes to think of her lies as "half lies" so they don't seem as bad, but the truth is that she's been straight-up lying to her mom for months. Some pills are tough to swallow.