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.

By that point, it’ll have been more than year since I met Lulu. Any sane person would say it’s too late. It already felt too late that first day, when I woke up in the hospital. But even so, I’ve kept looking. I’m still looking.

About being grateful for what you have instead of yearning for what you think you want.

All relationships are tough. Just like with music, sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony.

Concert' doesn’t mean standing up like a target in front of thousands of strangers. It means coming together. It means harmony.

All night long if you want. We'll tell our secrets to the dark.

But then Mason touches my neck, to the spot on it where the cut from that night has since healed, and I pull away. He was right, after all; it didn't leave a scar, though part of me wishes it had. At least I'd have some evidence, some justification of this permanence. Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.