This is the hard part about having best friends that I feel no attachment to -- I don't give them any benefit of the doubt. And being best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt.

Sometimes memory tricks you. Sometimes beauty is best when it's distant.

We stay this way until twilight colours the window and the hour calls me home

It will affect me in ways I can't even begin to get my mind around. This day is a dark crater. There is no room for songs. The songs are wrong. Every song is wrong. And I don't know what to do without music.

You never get involved in the people's lives? The ones you're inhabiting?" I shake my head. "You try to leave the lives the way you found them." "Yeah." "But what about Justin? What made that so different?" "You," I say.

I never felt the urge to jump off a bridge, but there are times I have wanted to jump out of my life, out of my skin.

It's the way you say thank you like you're genuinely thankful. I have never met anyone else who does that on a regular basis.