You fell in love with someone because of the tilt of his smile, or because he could make you laugh, or in this case, because he made you believe that you were the only one who could save him.

what made you happy once might not make you happy now.

it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.

Perhaps he d always known that the truth of a person lies in the heart.

You can be strapped to the most stable chair and still feel the world give way beneath you.

It was always easier for me to show love than to say it. The word reminded me of pralines: small, precious, almost unbearable sweet. I would light up in his presence; I felt like a sun in the constellation of his embrace. But trying to put what I felt for him into words diminished it somehow, like pinning a butterfly under glass, or videotaping a comet.

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.