Sometimes knowing what's right isn't a rational decision, or even what works on paper. Sometimes leaving is the best course of action after all.

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

when you [lose someone], it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all nerves are still a little raw

If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?

Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?

If words had flavors, hers would be bitter almonds and coffee grounds.

Did you ever think that maybe what you see isn't really what's true?