She is carrying herself through the day, and it’s not an easy task.

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

They don’t have silences together; they have noise. Mostly his.

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

We just want to walk. Our legs need to move to keep our minds from collapsing.

He was my first boyfriend, and I made him my everything - he was my new life, my new love, my new compass point. I guess that's the danger with firsts - you lose all sense of proportion.

If you zoom close-if you get really close to someone, if you really get close to yourself-then you lose the other person, you lose yourself entirely. You get so close you can't see anything anymore.