deerlily:

“Who said ‘please’ that made you hate the word so much?”
Andrew gazed at him in silence for a minute. “I did.”
Neil didn’t know what answer he’d been expecting but this wasn’t it.
Andrew tolerated his blank stare for only a couple seconds before waving this all off as inconsequential and uninteresting. “He said he would stop if I said it.”
“You believed him,” Neil guessed.
“I was seven,” Andrew said. “I believed him.”

“And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
—Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner