Promise me we'll stay together, okay? His eyes are once again the clear blue of a perfectly transparent pool. They are eyes to swim in, to float in, forever. "You and me". "I promise". I say. behind us the door creaks open, and I turn around, expecting Raven, just as a voice cuts through the air: "Don't believe her.

Requiem has been controversial because people dont feel I gave it closure.

And then, just at that moment, when I'm no longer sure if I'm dreaming or awake or walking some valley in between where everything you wish for comes true, I feel the flutter of his lips on mine.

You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".

Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says. it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts.

The worst is knowing I can't tell anybody what's happening -or what's happened- to me. Not even my mom.

I can admit, now, that I must have loved Lena. Not in an Unnatural way, but my feelings for her must have been a kind of sickness. How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?