True friendship is a promise you keep forever.

Instead, we just sat there, together but really apart, watching a show about a stranger and all her secrets, while keeping our own to ourselves, as always.

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.

It was like discovering that some part of you wasn't yours at all. And it made me wonder what else I couldn't claim.

Because you can never go from going out to being friends, just like that. It's a lie. It's just something that people say they'll do to take the permanence out of a breakup. And someone always takes it to mean more than it does, and then is hurt even more when, inevitably, said ‘friendly' relationship is still a major step down from the previous relationship, and it's like breaking up all over again. But messier.

She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive.