Why do you have to be so annoying sometimes?" "Cant help it. It's the company I keep.

If I wasn't me, you wouldn't be you.

For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when I was right here beside him?

We should have stories in common, I found myself thinking. We should have stories, and jokes no one understands, and memories that we know will stay alive because neither of us will let the other forget.

They adore you beacause they think you offer up your friendship and ask for nothing in return. But that's not true-' He took a deep breath. 'You do ask for something. You ask that we never expect you to need us.

Decisions. Where, what, why. Can't handle them. So I'm prolonging the indecision with higher education.

Don't you know how much I hero-worshiped you when I was a kid? You were Marie Curie crossed with Emily Bronte crossed with Joan of Arc to me when I was ten. And when i told you that, you said my cultural references were the sign of a colonized mind.