Life is much different from the days when there were lilies in my mother’s garden, and all my secrets fit into a paper cup.

and I've always known it, the way I love a song I hear for the first time, even before I know all the words, the way I love my favorite color, and the way that the train would speed past my bedroom when it was very quiet and I'd feel it in my stomach rushing through me. I love you in a way that I've never felt needed to be said.

In the distance I see a lighthouse. The light washes over us and continues on its rotation. This time, I don't know where the light will guide us.

She’s a commodity in a sea of broken girls.

Every star has been set in the sky. We mistakenly think they were put there for us.

Do you know what my father used to say?" I ask her. "He used to say that songs had a heart. A crescendo that can make all your blood rush from your head to your toes.

But I know all the things you're too sweet to know.