Sometimes it is a relief to be invisible

All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.

Daniel?" "Yes." "Did you ever think we were meant not to be together?" "No. We are meant to be together. We are just meant to want it very badly.

You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful.

Carmen was bad at loving. She loved too hard.

Maybe they would look at each other and feel some odd yearning, but neither of them would know why. They would want to stop, but they would be embarrassed, and neither would know what to say. They would go their separate ways. Who knew? Maybe that happened every day to people who'd once loved each other.

But I know this. We're ready to move forward again in our way. Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together.