gravity, n. I imagine you saved my life. And then I wonder if I'm just imagining it.

And once again I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and effect is backward. The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.

That air. The air afterwards. I wanted to breathe it in. It felt right to breathe it in. Because we were breathing them in, weren't we? And the building. We were breathing it all in. And I thought, there's a part of this that's actually a part of me now. I now have that responsibility. I am alive, and I am breathing, and I can do the things this dust can't do.

The key is to never recognize these imbalances. To not let the dauntingness daunt us.

I'll see you later, he says, and as he does, he runs his finger briefly over my wrist. It passes over me like air, and makes me shiver like a kiss.

It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.

School is school-she wants it to be over, but she's afraid of it being over, because then she'll have to figure out what comes next.