He let his mind wander. It went to a predictable place, and he missed her

She never acted as if she liked him all that much, but then she never acted as if she liked anyone all that much.

For she had embodied the Great Perhaps--she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes, and now she was gone and with her my faith in perhaps.

We had to forgive to survive the labyrinth

My thoughts are starts I can't fathom into constellations.

She was loved deeply, but not widely

And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future—you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.