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.

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

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.

For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it's twenty. We are all dropping like flies.

There is a silence so great that I can hear the ice crystals cracking and falling from eyelashes of girls who will never blink again.

So many of the things I've wanted are the things I've been taught to fear.

I see an ocean that’s spilled out of a wineglass, its body clear and sparkling and folding over itself. I see a ribbon of sand.