And I felt comfort. Finally. 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. I knew, deep down, it was more complicated than that, but watching Jason, I was hopeful. He took the mess that was Macbeth and fixed it, and I had to wonder if he might, in some small way, be able to do the same for me. So I moved myself closer to him, and I'd been there ever since.

...You can't unlearn something, even if you want to. You know what you know.

I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?' There were so many questions in life. You couldn't ever have all the answers. But I knew this one. It's so she can fly,' I said. Then I started to run.

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

You punched him by accident.

So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood how I felt. Now, though, I sometimes wished for more.

It takes so little to change everything. If you really thought about it, it would scare you to death.