You are everything good and straight and fine and true—and I see that so clearly now, in the way you’ve carried yourself and listened to your own heart. You’ve changed me more than you know, and will always be a part of everything I am. That’s one thing I’ve learned from this. No one you love is ever truly lost.

If I can write one sentence, simple and true every day, I'll be satisfied.

Books could be an incredible adventure. I stayed under my blanket and barely moved, and no one would have guessed how my mind raced and my heart soared with stories.

I'd never met anyone so vibrant or alive. He moved like light.

People belong to each other only as long as they both believe. He stopped believing.

Happiness is so awfully complicated, but freedom isn't. You're either tied down or you're not.

But in the end, fighting for a love that was already gone felt like trying to live in the ruins of a lost city.