The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.

Take a picture of this so Isaac can see it when they invent robot eyes.

I don't think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost.

Isaac out of surgery. It went well. He's officially NEC. NEC meant "no evidence of cancer." A second text came a few seconds later. I mean, he's blind. So that's unfortunate.

And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absence of her would hurt more than any breakup ever could.

You can trust that caring, as a rule, ends poorly,” which is true. Caring doesn’t sometimes lead to misery. It always does.

I didn't even know what the feeling was, really, just that there was a lot of it.