A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.

Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens, that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can’t hook your boat to mine, because I’m liable to sink us both.

It was such a sweet, sad song with such sweet, sad lyrics. Old-fashioned a little, but also timeless.

"I accept your condemnation," I said.

Maybe if I'd been braver in that moment, I would have cried.

Wounds are like water set to boil - they heal best left unwatched.

The theme of the dance was "Great Romances," or some such nonsense. There were projections of supposedly great couples from the past on the walls of the gym. Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Hermione and Ron, Bonnie and Clyde, etc.