This is what happiness is, past the rubbish of its overuse as a word, past the cracked gloss of the letters that mean nothing when strung together. They mean something now, and I know what it's like when you and someone else are right together. How simple is is, and how amazing.

I didn't want it to be one good memory that led to a lot of bad ones. I wanted it to stay what it was, one amazing moment, something that was strong and sweet enough to stand on its own. Something I could remember without any pain. - Kate

Why do people think being with someone is the answer to everything?

But I know a lie when I hear one.

I think...I think sometimes that's how it is. Sometimes people have to go before you get stuff. Before you can really get it.

I want to lie down on the bench then, or better yet, on the grass, rest on something living and see if I can hear the dead underneath.

How come you like Josh so much anyway? All he does is sit around drinking overpriced coffee and bitching about how awful things are" "He cares about the world." "If he cared about the world, he'd donate the ten thousand dollars he must spend on coffee every year to charity. That would be doing something.