Dark matter has a gravitation effect on other objects. You can't see it, you can't feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in its direction.

eskimos maybe? believed stars were holes in the sky where people who died could peek through at you

I have always written about subjects that engage me - questions I can't answer myself. They apparently tend to be big moral and ethical issues!

I have loved before, but it didn’t feel like this. I have kissed before, but it didn’t burn me alive. Maybe it lasts a minute, and maybe it’s an hour. All I know is that kiss, and how soft her skin is when it brushes against mine, and that, even if I did not know it until now, I have been waiting for this person forever.

She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.

He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever

There was no easy switch that she could flip to stem the flow of feelings, no way to drain the memories that pooled like acid in her stomach because her heart no longer knew what to do with them.