I do not fall. I fell so hard so long ago there is nothing left for me to land on. I just keep falling and falling and falling.

I heard how people sounded when their dreams were shattered, when their lives were turned into a waking nightmare.

I want to care, but I don’t. I look at you and all I feel is tired.

She looked at me for real and saw I was serious. She saw I knew she was for me like you know that tomorrow morning the sun will rise.

Do you really think he was flirting with me?" "Let's see. He gave you candy you hate - I saw your face - and a CD of songs..." He looks at the CD. "All of these are, like, twenty years old at least. Figures. Oh, and he groped your face. Sounds like true love to me.

Then I heard someone laugh. I wished I didn't know whose laugh it was, but I knew Will's laugh just like I knew he had a small scar right above his left elbow. You couldn't be reluctantly lust-ridden for someone without noticing stuff about them.

The thing about hearts is that they always want to keep beating