Forward momentum. That's my new motto. No regrets. And no going back.

I think everything is happening all the time, but if you don't put yourself in the path of it, you miss it. When you travel, you put yourself out there. It's not always great. Sometimes it's terrible. But other times ... [...] It's not so bad.

And if I'm not forgiven, then at least I'm understood.

I realize then that it's not enough to know what someone is called. You have to know who they are.

What would you do if you had to choose?

And that's when I understand that I have been stained. Whether I'm still in love with him, whether he was ever in love with me, and no matter who he's in love with now, Willem changed my life. He showed me how to get lost, and then I showed myself how to get found.

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.