Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?

I don't want to boss anyone and I don't want to be bossed.

It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.

Henry loves my hair almost as though it is a creature unto itself, as though it has a soul to call its own, as though it could love him back.

…she smiles in an exhausted but warm sort of way, as though she is a brilliant sun in some other galaxy

The pain has left but I know that it has not gone far, that it is sulking somewhere in a corner or under the bed and it will jump out when I least expect it.

Maybe I'm dreaming you. Maybe you're dreaming me; maybe we only exist in each other's dreams and every morning when we wake up we forget all about each other.