Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains

It was strange to find them here, still alive, with their shared bits of past that suddenly counted for nothing.

Separating them were two layers of brick, a few inches of plaster, and nine years of silence.

They lived the slow and invisible interpenetration of their universes, like two stars gravitating around a common axis, in ever tighter orbits, whose clear destiny is to coalesce at some point in space and time.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

With a little effort, she could get up by herself

Even though he was afraid to admit it, when he was with her it seemed it was worth doing all those normal things that normal people do.