In you, I found infinity. In you, I was reborn

What were you like," I asked her. "we're you happy? Or were you smiling because they told you to?

I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be.

A place isn't a place until it has a bookstore.

It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed.

My heart was a little bit broken, but I still had to go to school. I buttoned my dress shirt over it and my winter coat, too. I hoped it didn't show too much.

For the longest time after that, neither of us said anything. I was unaccustomed to his silence, but I didn't mind it. I knew near everything about him, and he knew near everything about me, and all that made our quiet a kind of song. The kind you hum without even knowing what it is or why you're humming it. The kind that you've always known.