Everyone you trust, everyone you think you can count on, will eventually disappoint you.

Juliet!' I whip around but not quickly enough. She's swallowed by the crowd, the gap that allowed her to break for the door closing just as quickly as it opened, a shifting Tetris pattern of bodies.

you have to understand. i wasn't just thinking of me. i was thinking of her, too.

Someday she will be saved, and the past and all its pain will be rendered as smoothly palatable as the food we spoon to our babies.

The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other...they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing down.

I'll find you," he says, watching me with the eyes I remember. "I won't let you go again

Quiet through the grave go I; or else beneath the graves I lie