...maybe hope isn't such a bad thing. Maybe it's what keeps us together.

The only characters I ever don't like are ones that leave no impression on me. And I don't write characters that leave no impression on me.

I lost everyone I loved," I tell him. I wait for him to look at me, and then I add, "The day I met you.

I don't dare touch her. Loss is a knowledge I'm sorry to have. Perhaps the only thing worse than experiencing it, is watching it replay anew in someone else--all the awful stages picking up like a chorus that has to be sung.

There is warmth shooting through my broken body where there should be pain, and I put my arms around the back of his neck and I hold on to him. I hold on because you never know in this place when something good will be taken away.

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

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.