If this was my instinct talking, I didn‟t want to hear what it was saying.

You could just tell when a person belonged somewhere. That is something you can't fake, no matter how hard you try

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

I looked at the sweatshirt again. "'You swim' is a philosophy?" He shrugged. "Better than 'you sink', right?

I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be one of so many, to have not just parents and siblings but cousins and aunts and uncles, an entire tribe to claim as your own. Maybe you would feel lost in the crowd. Or sheltered by it. Whatever the case, one things was for sure: like it or not, you'd never be alone.

Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least it was done.

All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that had happened to me in this same way. To label it neatly on a page: this leads to this leads to this.