Everyone laughed, and just like that, the conversation shifted, jumping to another topic. It was fast and furious, the talking, the emotions, the back-and-forth and forth-and-back. I realized that if I tried to focus on it too much, I got overwhelmed. So I just decided to relax into it, bumpy and crazy as it might be, and try for once to just go along for the ride.

Are those the only options? Nothing or forever?

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.

An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.

But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.

Total commitment. You know, the idea of discovering something that, for all intents and purposes, goes against your abilities, and yet still deciding to do it anyway. That takes guts, you know?