I'm always standing on the edge of something bad.

why won't they leave me alone? don't they realize I have a tinder heart and a paper body and that any spark will turn me straight to ash?

We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.

But whether or not you are here, you are here—because these words are for you, and they wouldn't exist if you weren't here in some way.

I see no sin in a kiss. I only see sin in the condemnation

But I still has enough longing for that concept that I didn't want to dispel it completely. Meaning: I didn't want to tell Lily that I felt we'd all been duped by Plato and the idea of a soul mate. Just in case it turned out that she was mine.

The older you get, the wiser you are - this is true. But you also question what use this wisdom is.y