Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you were overwhelmed or numb? Our emotions can sneak up on us and can live on well after the event that inspired them.

…It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right time. They didn’t come at all when you set a place for them, and they sacked you when you weren’t ready, when you were just innocently flossing your teeth, for example, or eating a bowl of cereal…

Excerpt from The Last Summer (of You and Me) by Ann Brashares.