All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real.

But something, somehow, had made all these paths converge. You couldn't find it on a checklist, or work it into the equation. It just happened.

Pieces and parts were always easier to process. The full picture, the entire story, was another thing entirely. But you just never knew. Sometimes, people could surprise you.

So you should remember that, when you're thinking about what other people can deal with. Maybe it's not so bad.

And that was it; it was so easy for her. My own memories did not even belong to me. But I knew she was wrong. I had seen that comet. I knew it as well as I knew my own face, my own hands. My own heart.

Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over.

But the bottom line is that, as humans, we are by nature selfish creatures. The only way we care about anything, really, is by making it about us.