You just had to know where to look.

She fell, she hurt, she felt. She lived. And for all the tumble of her experiences, she still had hope. Maybe this next time would do the trick. Or maybe not. But unless you stepped into the game, you would never know.

Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said. Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.

During this time we've been apart, it's you I've thought of when I'm at my weakest, and you who have pulled me through.

The true story...is the realization that no time in your life is ever perfect, that even the best memories have cracks you might not see.

It was just one of those things," I said, "You know, that just happen. You don't think or plan. You just do it.

And I felt comfort. Finally. 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. I knew, deep down, it was more complicated than that, but watching Jason, I was hopeful. He took the mess that was Macbeth and fixed it, and I had to wonder if he might, in some small way, be able to do the same for me. So I moved myself closer to him, and I'd been there ever since.