...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.

Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.

Sometimes things seem so unbearable in the middle of the night, don't they? In the middle of the night, we're all such children.

Well, for one, you have to remember not to scream. Once you have their attention, whispering is much more effective. Screaming ghosts scare people, you know

But in my defense, I knew enough about her to know I wanted to know everything else; I knew as much about her as she wanted me to know; I knew as much about her as anyone ever knows about anyone. And isn't love just curiosity at the beginning anyway?

Should have. Would have. Could have. Didn't.

There's the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and then there's the upside-down root tree, growing the opposite way. So Earth is the branches, growing in opposing but perfect symmetry. The branches don't think much about the roots, and maybe the roots don't think much about the branches, but all the time, they're connected by the trunk, you know?