Somewhere along the line, organized religion stopped being about faith, and started being about who had the power to keep the faith. You said that the purpose of religion was to bring people together. But does it, really? Or does it-knowingly, purposefully, and intentionally--break them apart?

Wheather it is conscious or not, you eventually make the decision to divide your life in half - before and after - with loss being that tight bubble in the middle. You can move around in spite of it; you can laugh and smile and carry on with your life, but all it takes is one slow range of motion, a doubling over, to be fully aware of the empty space at your center.

Lately, I have been having nightmares, where I'm cut into so many pieces that there isn't enough of me to be put back together.

The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.

I am Alice in Wonderland', Josie thought. 'Watch me fall.

And in general, the residents of the town wondered why they all felt hollow just beneath the throat, the result of missing something they had never been able to name in the first place.

When someone loves you up one side and down the other like that, you make every effort to stick around.