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.

We can change so many times in our lives. We're born into a family, and it's the only life we can imagine, but it changes. Buildings collapse. Fires burn. And the next second we're someplace else entirely, going through different motions and trying to keep up with this new person we've become.

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.

Dystopian, by definition, promises a darker story.

We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions

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.

You can try to please everyone and risk accomplishing nothing, or go for your dreams and risk pissing a few people off.