The world seems so clean if you only looked up.

Bet you never eat, he says. Bet you drink up the oxygen like it's butter. Bet you can go for days on nothing but thoughts.

You’re insane, you know that?” he says. “It’s the only thing keeping me afloat,” I say.

Linden just wants to protect her, is what I want to say. She's all he has. I left him. I'm at arms reach, but I've left him.

You have a way of looking at things. You make it seem as though everything's going to be okay. I can't imagine a more dangerous thing to have than hope like yours.

I miss something I never even had.

I think, in this strange world of beautiful things, there may be some humanity after all.