Yes, it sucked getting dumped. But wasn't it better to just be brutally honest? To admit that your feeling for someone is never going to be powerful enough to justify taking up any more of their time? I was doing him a favor, really. Freeing him up for a better opportunity. In fact, I was a practically a saint, if you really thought about it. Exactly.

It's harder that in looks," I told him when I finally got back in the car. "Most things are.

No, no, no to Tallyho.

An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.

I was tired of hanging on, taking the torn pieces to make something whole with them.

All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that had happened to me in this same way. To label it neatly on a page: this leads to this leads to this.

It wasn’t so much that I was positive. I just wasn’t fully subscribing to such a negative way of thinking anymore.