In case you're an alien and you're reading this: BITE ME.
I am the one, Not Running, Not Staying, But FACING
Still, you tend to believe what you always believed, think what you always thought, expect what you always expected
I thought I knew what loneliness was before he found me, but I had no clue. You don't know what real loneliness is until you've known the opposite.
It wasn't aliens that first made us gear up for war; it was our fellow humans.
I am a shark, Cassie," he says slowly, drawing the words out, as if he might be speaking to me for the last time. Looking into my eyes with tears in his, as if he's seeing me for the last time. "A shark who dreamed he was a man.