I will never abandon you. I love you too much.

What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories?

Do you trust me? The question is usually asked before an admission that such trust is misplaced.

I closed my eyes and abandoned myself to my grief. It felt better, somehow, to be helpless. I didn't feel ashamed.

Work. Write. Read. Keep putting words on the page, because that's the only way you'll get better.

There were never going to be any happy endings for me. I know that now. But that is all right.

And then, when there is nothing else between us but love, we can begin to find a way to truly be together.