You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.

This is exactly what i wanted, as commitments had never really been my thing. And it wasn't like it was hard, either. The only trick was never giving more than you were willing to lose.

But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

From this distance, in the dimness, the model looked surreal, made up of parts filled with buildings, bordered by long stretches of empty space. It reminded me of the way cities and towns look when you are flying at night. You can't make out much. But the places where people have come together, and stayed, are collections of tiny lights, breaking up the darkness.

She stroked my hair and told me I was beautiful, but I was old enough by then to know not to believe it anymore.

I would have thought this would make me feel better.. getting to be the one to leave and not the one left behind. But it didn't. Not at all.

I think when you're a beginning author with any publishing company, there's only so much they can put behind you.