Do the other kids make fun of you? For how you talk?' 'Sometimes.' 'So why don't you do something about it? You could learn to talk differently, you know.' But this is my voice. How would you be able to tell when I was talking?

That's when you realize that most of it-life, the relentless mechanism of existing-isn't about you. It doesn't include you at all. It will thrust onward even after you've jumped the edge. Even after you're dead.

Hearts are fragile things. That's why you have to be so careful.

Yeah, but our choices are limited. We choose from a list that they chose for us." She said. "Well, Choices are supposed to be limited. That's life" I snapped

It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.

You have to go forward: It's the only way. You have to go forward no matter what happens. This is the universal law.

My heart is fluid and soaring. There's no longer any space between heartbeats.