There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there.

I think one of the reasons to be here on earth is to finally be who we are, at all times - to know and be predictable to ourselves.

...Grandpa's mind had left us, gone wild and wary. When I walked with him I could feel how strange it was. His thoughts swam between us, hidden under rocks, disappearing in weeds, and I was fishing for them, dangling my own words like baits and lures.

I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?

I spend my time dwelling on revenge and try to deal with the monsters crawling out of the ashes.

some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.

Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me.
 Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.