Answerless questions can destroy you. Move on.

But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded.

What a strange phrase — –not seeing other people. As if it’s been constructed to be a lie. We see other people all the time. The question is what we do about it.

We found out a long time ago that we weren’t meant to fall in love with each other. But a part of me still fell in hope with him.

What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.

I want to take back the secrets I told you so I can decide now whether to tell them to you again. I want to take back the piece of me that lies in you, to see if I truly miss it. I want to take back at least half the “I love you”s, because it feels safer that way.

When we’re alone together, I’m the destination. When I’m here in her life at school, I’m the disruption.