Someday I'll tell you all of it," I say. "I'd like that," he says. "No," I say. "I promise you won't.

I've done it all before, I tell myself, and I can do it again. Trust is the strongest weapon.

The months fall to shards at my feet.

When we're alive, life consumes us. But when we die, all of the color and the motion is gone so quickly, it's as though it can no longer stand to be wasted on us.

Things will get worse before they get better.

Maybe hope isn't the most dangerous thing a person can have. Maybe love is.

The madness of youth made me unafraid.