I should have told you from the start. I will let you down.

It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.

I just do the best I can under the circumstances.

You want me to give her a key?" the guy asked. "I want you to give her a possibility," she told him, looking at my necklace again. "And that's what a key represents. An open door, a chance. You know?

It sounded stupid, but of course everything does when you're just getting the bare bones facts, only the basics.

In those first few hours officially single again the world seems like it expands, suddenly bigger and more vast now that you have to get through it alone.

I'd been through so much, falling short again and again, and only recently had found a place where who I was, right now, was enough.