If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam’s circle.

No one is who they pretend to be

There were signs. Probably more of them than I ever caught, even after the fact. But I missed them all. Maybe because I wasn’t looking for them. I was too busy checking over my shoulder at the fire I’d just come through to pay much attention to the thousand-foot cliff looming in front of me.

Sometimes the best way to find out what you’re supposed to do is by doing the thing you’re not supposed to do.

..all I left with was the magnitude of my mistake, of my missing you. And I have to watch you from this distance, watch you achieve your dreams, live what seemed like this perfect life.

Because if time can be fluid, then maybe something that is just one day can go on indefinitely

Suddenly, it's all too much. Bryn and the bump watch. Vanessa with my high school yearbook. The idea that nothing's sacred. Everything's fodder. That my life belongs to anyone but me.