How many times could you give up on someone you loved?

The path of your life can change in an instant.

Shy” was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. “Snotty” was the interpretation she got from people her own age.

She must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew.

Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter)

She thought she would know when it happened. But now, as she looked around, she wondered if it was really like that at all. Maybe it happened in a million different ways, when you were thinking of it and you weren't. Maybe there was no gap, no jump, no chasm. You didn't forget yourself all at once. Maybe you just looked around one time or another and you thought, Hey. And there you were.

You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all of my lives. It`s you who makes me a person.