It's a miracle I was able to get out of the house today. It's a miracle I'm even wearing pants, a double miracle I remembered to wear shoes.

like I am Alice in the Wonderland and have gotten too big for the room.

people do terrible things, sometimes, for the best reasons.

There's always some relief in giving up.

And there it is: Even though we’re standing in the same patch of sun-drenched pavement, we might as well be a hundred thousand miles apart.

And in that moment, the wordless thing passed between us, the thing that wasn't quite love but was so close I could believe in it sometimes.

...into hate, into refusal, against hope and without fear