Remy: Did you really believe, that first day, that we were meant to be together? Dexter: You're here, aren't you?

You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place. But standing there alone on the landing, I thought of Grandma Halley and how she'd held me close against her lap as we watched the sky together. I'd always thought I couldn't remember, but suddenly in that moment, I closed my eyes and saw the comet, finally, brilliant and impossible, stretching above me across the sky.

She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxing life our of the dry, dull grass my father had spent years pushing a mower over.

In the end, though, maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.

But I always worked harder when I was up against something, or when someone assumed I couldn't succeed. That's what drove me, all those nights studying. The fact that so many figured I couldn't do it.

But unfriendly is usually one of those things you pick up on right away. You know, like B.O. There's no hiding it if it's there.

But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren't what people wanted to hear.