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.

I couldn't remember ordinary moments, only the ones that had made an impression. Ordinary moments were the ones that fell away first.

I text tiny a minute later. MADE NEW GAY FRIEND. And he texts back PROGRESS!!!

I find my greatest strengths in wanting ti be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave.

It's only a game if there is an absence of meaning. And we've already gone too far for that.

exemplar, n. It's always something we have to negotiate- the face that my parents are happy, and yours have never been. I have something to live up to, and if I fail, I still have a family to welcome me home. You have a storyline to rewrite, and a lack of faith that it can ever be done. You love my parents, I know. But you never get too close. You never truly believe there aren't bad secrets underneath.

And If only I could, I'd make a deal with God.