It's crazy what you see if you aren't really looking.
the missing piece my breath my heart my memory me the other half the missing half
Sometimes everyone does the right thing and there's still a mess left to clean up. Someone has to take responsibility for it.
It was pretty obvious Lena wanted to be asked. Another mysterious thing about girls- they want to be asked to stuff even if they don't want to go.
A kiss that was every bit as big and every bit as small as a kiss can be.
My mom was there, in some form, in some sense, in some universe. My mom was still my mom, even if she only lived in books and door locks and the smell of fried tomatoes and old paper. She lived.