If you didn't always have to choose between turning away for good or rushing in deeper. In the moments that it really counts, maybe it's enough - more than enough, even - just to be there.

You just walk over there and into the office and say, 'Hey, be my prom date,'" he said. "It's that simple.

No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.

I understood now. This voice, the one that had been trying to get my attention all this time, calling out to me, begging me to hear it - it wasn't Will's. It was mine.

For two hours I'd felt myself stretching tighter and tighter, like a rubber band pulled to the point of snapping. And now, I could feel the smaller, weaker part of myself beginning to fray, tiny bits giving way before the big break.

That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about.

Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.