Something must die so that others can live.

That's all I want. Just you and me. Always.

An eye for an eye." "And the whole world goes blind," Coral puts in quietly.

A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.

As soon as I look up, his eyes click onto my face. The breath whooshes out of my body and everything freezes for a second, as though I’m looking at him through my camera lens, zoomed in all the way, the world pausing for that tiny span of time between the opening and closing of the shutter.

Maybe all of these different possibilities exist at the same time, like each moment we live has a thousand other moments layered underneath it that look different.

Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.