"I don't know why you do that," Queenie says, her expression pinched with a resigned sort of worry as she watches Tina. "Why you pull yourself down." All her life, it's never been something she's completely understood, despite having access to her sister's thoughts in a way that sometimes even Tina herself didn't have.

"He won't forget about you, Teenie," she says, eyebrows arching to emphasize that on this, she definitively knows. "He's gonna be him, but that doesn't mean there's not room for you with him."