She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep playing.

You forget your victories, but you remember the losses.

I'm not going anywhere without you. We're swimming to China together. And if the worst happens, I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.

She'd cried over a broken heart before. She knew what that felt like, and it didn't feel like this. Her heart felt not so much broken as just ... empty. It felt like she was an outline empty in the middle. The outline cried senselessly for the absent middle. The past cried for the present that was nothing.

Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.

She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to

Why does he have to be my boyfriend? Are you inferior if you don't have a boyfriend? Why does everybody have to be in love with somebody?