It was such a weird thing how a breakup stretched much wider than you expected. You didn't just lose a person, but their entire world as well.

We can all be beautiful girls.

I wasn’t ready to think about the other yet: that it wasn’t that I wasn’t right for Macon, but that maybe he wasn’t right for me. There was a difference. Even for someone who things didn’t come easy for, someone like me.

It's only advice. Ignore it if you want.

But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening.

As if he was beating me to the punch, his words living forever, while I was left speechless, no rebuttal, no words left to say.

As he heard me approach, he quickly leaped up, grabbing a nearby loaf of bread and holding it in front of him as if struck by a sudden desire to make a sandwich.