Every time you love someone, you put not just your faith in them, but your faith in everything to the test.

I want to know why this is such a part of me. I want to know why this thing that happened to other people has happened so much to me. I keep looking for the lesson.

There is no word for our kind of friendship. Two people who don't see each other a lot, but can make each other effortlessly happy

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

My face seems too square and my eyes too big, like I'm perpetually surprised, but there's nothing wrong with me that I can fix.

My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.

You existed. You existed now as a fractal. Definition: A fractal is generally a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be broken into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole. Maybe I was a fractal. Maybe the photographer was a fractal. Maybe we were all fractals.