Maybe" she said. "I just wish we'd have a little mishap.It would be reassuring

I'd known enough people for every minute of the day, and yet still didn't have anyone as my two a.m.

When he stopped walking and kissed me a few minutes later, it was like time had stopped, with the air, my heart, and the world all so still. And it was this I remembered every other time I was with Marshall.

I bet you can't eat ten bananas!" "I bet you're right.

But it was okay not to fit in everywhere, as long as you did somewhere.

As I stepped out to face myself in the mirror, reaching a hand to smooth away the steam, I saw myself differently. It was as if I had grown again as I slept, but this time just to fit my own size. As if my soul had expanded, filling out the gaps of the height that had burdened me all these months. Like a balloon filling slowly with air, becoming all smooth and buoyant, I felt like I finally fit within myself, edge to edge, every crevice filled.

It all depends on how you choose to live it. It's like forever, always changing.