“But you’re not a bad person trying to get good. You’re a sick person trying to get well,” Gabe responded.
Cyrus sat with the thought. Gabe went on, “There’s no difference to the outside world between a good guy and a bad guy behaving like a good guy. In fact, I think God loves that second guy a little more.”
“Good-person drag,” Cyrus thought out loud. That’s what they called it after that.
Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar