And yet you are all that you have, so you must be enough. There is no other way.

Falling in love happens so suddenly that it seems, all at once, that you have always been in love.

I began to measure things in absence instead of presence.

When you believe that you are not worthwhile in and of yourself, in the back of your mind you also begin to believe that life is not worthwhile in and of itself. It is only worthwhile insofar as it relates to your crusade. It is a kamikaze mission.

...painfully curious...about how it feels to fall.

When I was growing up, I always felt there was an expectation that I would do one of two things: be great at something, or go crazy and become a total failure. There is no middle ground where I come from, and I am only now beginning to get a sense that there is a middle ground at all.

You can only whine for so long. Then you need to get your life back.