It's funny how you can know your friends so well, but you still end up playing the same games with them.

Running is a mental sport, more than anything else. You're only as good as your training, and your training is only as good as your thinking.

I'm gone, lost, floating away into nothingness like I am in my dream, but this time it's a good feeling - like soaring, like being totally free, and I can feel the impression of his fingers everywhere that they touch, and I think of stars streaking through the sky and leaving burning trails behind them, and in that moment - however long it lasts, seconds, minutes, days - while he's saying my name into my mouth and I'm breathing into him, I realize this, right here, is the first and only time I've ever been kissed in my life.

Love: It will kill you and save you, both

For a moment, my heart aches for him. I should never have asked him to join me here; I should never have asked him to cross.

The priests and the scientists are right about one thing: At our heart, at our base, we are no better than animals.

I'm not ugly but I'm not pretty either. Everything is in-between. I have eyes that aren't green or brown, but a muddle. I'm not thin but I'm not fat either. the only thing you could definitely say about me is that: I'm short