Chapter 79
Quinn envied that ease. But more than that, he knew why he didn’t possess it. And he traced it all back to her. If adulthood was a reaction to childhood, then Syd and Chan were the perfect training camp for Coach Smalley and company. It was, he realized, no mere coincidence that he seemed to wind up with hypercritical people to whom he was always proving his self-worth. It’s what he had been bred on. And maybe it was just who he was, so that the person who did the most reproving was actually himself.