if you think of a relationship as a living entity, I guess it's one thing if the missing two percent is, like, a fingernail. But when it's the heart, that's a whole different ball of wax.

Sometimes Chris wished he could sneak a peek at the back of the book, so to speak, and see how it was all going to turn out, so that he wouldn't have to bother going through the motions.

I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall.

something is always falling apart in me.

It is so easy to presume that while your own world has ground to an absolute halt, so has everyone else's.

If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.