Fourth period I have "life skills", which is what they call gym when you're old enough to be offended by forced physical activity (Elody thinks they should call it slavery instead, for accuracy).

Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do.

You came form different starts and you'll come to different ends.

Are you ever afraid to go to sleep? Afraid of what comes next?” He smiles a sad little smile and I swear it’s like he knows. “Sometimes I’m afraid of what I’m leaving behind,” he says.

Why couldn't you let me have it? Why did you have to take it? Why did you always take everything?

My first kiss. A new kind of kiss, like the new kind of music still playing, softly, in the distance - wild and arrhythmic, desperate. Passionate.

That's the thing: We didn't really care. A world without love is also a world without stakes.