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

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

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

But then again maybe "I will" is nicer. It has a future in it.

And I was crying for gravity. It had sent me down the stairs, and I'd thought that meant something, but maybe it was just the direction that all things tend to flow.

Oh, all stories are the same, aren't they? Men and women fall in love or out of love. People are born; people die. It al ends happily or it all ends sadly, and the difference matters only to the people involved.

The scent is sweet and meloncholy. A bit like dying, a bit like falling in love.