Relationships dont always make sense. Especially from the outside

It is kind of hard to hold a lot in. But for me… it’s sometimes even harder to let it out.

I wondered if it was really because he cared about me, or if now I was just another challenge.

…You don’t want the best of times to be just one thing, forever. You have to have a lot of bests of times, each one topping the last. You know?

Needing was so easy: it came naturally, like breathing. Being needed by someone else, though, that was the hard part. But as with giving help and accepting it, we had to do both to be made complete-like links overlapping to form a chain, or a lock finding the right key.

It's always very pure, that last moment before an ugly, unsettling truth hits someone. The most stark of before-and-afters.

'I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'