But if I didn’t want to be alone, then why didn’t I want to be with anyone else?

Everyone tried with me. And everytime, it felt like the whole point of life was to see if trying was ever enough.

Let’s make plans,” I ventured. And Sofia smiled and said, “No, let’s leave it to chance.

Knowledge is the only thing I take with me when I go.

We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust. That's all we ask of you. Make more than dust.

placid, adj. Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still.

But death is not freedom. For a moment, it can look like freedom. But then it's death. Anything. Something. Nothing.