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.

I had this feeling like the solution to everything would be down there if only I could dig through all those clouds.

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

I don't know if it was love or an illusion. I don't know if there's ever a way to be certain.

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

Her mind is a bird that's trapped inside her skull, flapping and thrashing, never breaking free.

But I know all the things you're too sweet to know.