If you want to know how someone really feels, you almost never have to ask.

There's nothing that says you can't change." "Not even if it changes everything else?" I shook my head. "Not even then.

We labored under the pretense that nothing had changed when everything had, and I understood him, but i no longer knew him.

He put my fingertips to his mouth and kissed them. Licked the trace of blood away. Made them clean. Then I knew the truth I had been denying. He made me clean. Dan made me clean and shining and bright. He made me beautiful, and I did not want to lose him.

My head's filled up with all the reasons it won't work. And I keep running the figures, over and over, but I can't seem to come up with an answer.

It’s okay to struggle to find our place in this world and the person who will take us for who and what we are. Sometimes we dress ourselves in layers that only get peeled away in the end, to leave us as we should be.

Good things, by their nature, are fleeting. It’s those that bring us grief that linger.