When he speaks again, I can tell that he's smiling. "So I guess we saved each other.
Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.
My parents were pretty liberal, but they were still parents. I definitely had my teenage rebellion.
You must hurt, or be hurt.
Every choice is limited. That's life.
We can never understand. We can only try, fumbling our way through the tunneled places, reaching for light.