But it's a big ocean. It's an even bigger world. And maybe we've gotten as close as we're supposed to get.

I'm so tired of missing things I don't have.

I realize it’s not just Willem I’m looking for; it’s Lulu too.

Sacrifice, that's what we do for the people we love.

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

Mia and I had been together for more than two years, and yes, it was a high school romance, but it was still the kind of romance where I thought we were trying to find a way to make it forever, the kind that, had we met five years later and had she not been some cello prodigy and had I not been in a band on the rise - or had our lives not been ripped apart by all this -I was pretty sure it would've been.

Sometimes the wind blows you places you weren't expecting: sometimes it blows you away from those places, too.