You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things

Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Ralph Hodgson

Exactly! We run or we lose ourselves in something, somebody, anything to try and ease our pain.

I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.

Lena realized that a fundamental layer of their happiness depended on the four of them being close to one another. Their lives were independent and full. Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives, but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.

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.

Someday was the thing he had, because it was a lot harder to ruin than today.