Because I love you.' It was easy to say it this time now that I understood what it meant. Then I quoted his own words back to him. 'Not just when it's easy. All the time.

My heart raced. He needs you, I thought. Don't let him down. I couldn't remember ever being so happy... or so scared.

I couldn't help what I'd done before I learned it was wrong. I could only do better in the future.

Before he bent his head, I knew what he was going to do. Touch his lips to mine. Oh, and I wanted him to... I stilled, hardly daring to breathe. The old refrain of cant and shouldn't sank beneath the weight of new worlds like please and yes.

The whole world is like Whitewall's razors I burst out. It cuts us, and we bleed but there's no purpose to it.

My heart should be breaking, too, but there comes a point when you’re so inured to loss that you no longer feel the lash.

People try to make sense of things, and if they don’t know the answers, they make them up,because for some, a wrong answer is better than none.