The only place you belong is the place you can never go back. And so yer always alone, forever and always.

Ah, well, then you've never stood on a beach as the waves came crashing in, the water stretching out from you until it's beyond sight, moving and blue and alive and so much bigger than even the black beyond seems because the ocean hides what it contains.

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.

I'll do it, Todd," I whisper. "I'll come with you." And he doesn't say anything, just squeezes my hand harder and brings it up to his face like he wants to breathe me in.

Conor was no longer invisible. They all saw him now. But he was further away than ever.

I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come.

Stories don’t always have happy endings.