tiny: but there is the word, this word phil wrayson taught me once: weltschmerz. it's the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be. i live in a big goddamned weltzschermz ocean, you know? and so do you.

Every two people cause and intersection. Every person alters the world.

It's hard to answer a question you haven't been asked. It's hard to show you tried unless you end up succeeding.

I still felt fondness for her - fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia.

I want my own books to have their own shelves," you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to live together.

You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself together. And then everything falls apart anyway.

I don’t want to know anything, and I want to know it all