Physical intimacy isn’t and can never be an effective substitute for emotional intimacy.

I inherited that penchant for intellectualism, a character flaw that these days can only be thoroughly eradicated by getting Z’ed up.

You can't just make me different and then leave. You can't. You can't change me and make my whole life centered around you, then leave.

She was not an adventure, she was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.

It seems to me that all the things we keep in sealed boxes are both alive and dead until we open the box, that the unobserved is both there and not.

This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again.

I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare myself to train my body for real fear when it comes. But I am not prepared.