For Beatrice- My love for you shall live forever. You, however, did not.

-Most people would say that she's beautiful. -That's because she's been with most people.

A long time ago, there was no such thing as school, and children spent their days learning a trade, a phrase which here means "standing around doing tedious tasks under the instruction of a bossy adult." In time, however, people realized that the children could be allowed to sit, and the first school was invented.

I gasped and pointed the way. I gave you an adventure, Ed, right in front of you but you never saw it until I showed you, and that's why we broke up.

A girl meets a boy, Ed, and everything changes, or so she says.

What happens in a certain place can stain your feelings for that location, just as ink can stain a white sheet. You can wash it, and wash it, and still never forget what has transpired - a word which here means 'happened, and made everybody sad'.

Just about everybody has written a first novel that they throw away before writing their actual first novel.