A second can feel like forever if what follows is heartbreak.

And just being there is ninety-nine percent of what matters when your world falls apart

The ability to keep your mouth shut is usually a sign of intelligence

I don't want to know how you did it. I want to believe you are magic.

I force myself to think of anything but the one thing that I'm actually always thinking about. And that is so exhausting that I sleep more than I ever have.

I somehow make it through the first month. I dress and brush my teeth when they tell me to. And I experience the hollow feeling of complete loss, which is emptiness.

Endings are always the beginnings of something else