this is what i never allowed myself to need. and of course what i've been needing all along.

His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should.

I find faith in human perseverance, even as the universe throws challenge after challenge our way.

Maybe there is hope in the fragments, that what is lost can always be filled in by someone who knows.

It's like, you know how sometimes you see a really sexy baby? Wait.

I am learning that a life isn't real unless someone else knows its reality. And I want my life to be real.

It was one of those moments when you feel the future so much that it humbles the present.