You will say good-bye for all the right reasons. You're tired of living in wait for his apocalypse. You have your own fight on your hands, and though it's no bigger or more noble than his, it will require all of your energy. It's you who has to hold on to earth. You have to tighten your grip -- which means letting go of him.

Finally, I asked how you got a boy to like you back. She said, 'Just be yourself,' as though I had any idea who that might be.

I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not the kind of writer who has a map.

He said, "People wait their whole lives for the kind of happiness we have.

You will say good-bye for all the right reasons. You're tired of living in wait for his apocalypse. You have your own fight on your hands, and though it's no bigger or more noble than his, it will require all of your energy. It's you who has to hold on to earth. You have to tighten your grip -- which means letting go of him.

It's perfectly natural to doubt your judgment about doubting your judgment.

You can feel that he wants to own you - not like an object but like a good dream he wants to keep having. He lets you know that you already own him.