Fate is a wheel that turns without our hand

I could remember the details as if it had happened yesterday, even though it was hard to believe some of it had happened at all. Funerals were tricky like that. And life, I guess. The important parts you blocked out altogether, but the random, slanted moments haunted you, replaying over and over in your mind.

I needed to touch her, like I needed to breathe.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.

Exactly. They're stupid. Who cares?" "I care. They bother me. And that's why I'm stupid. That makes me exponentially more stupid than stupid. I'm stupid to the power of stupid." She waved her hand. The moon blew away. "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard." I looked at her out of the corner of my eye.

You're so full of crap, you could pass for a toilet.

A kiss that was every bit as big and every bit as small as a kiss can be.