As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong.

Out of the millions and millions of people that inhabit this planet, he is one of the tiny few I can never have.

Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.

He will think Lochan wasn't loved, but he was, more deeply than most people are in a lifetime.

He shakes his head with a slow smile. You'd better be right. If the phone rings, I'm unpluggining it, I swear to God-“ You'd do that to your five-year-old sister?“ I gasp in mock outrage. For one whole night alone? Jesus, Maya, I'd sell her to the gypsies!

Even though I'm surrounded by pupils, there is the invisible screen screen between us, and behind the glass wall I am screaming - screaming in my own silence, screaming to be noticed, to be befriended, to be liked.

The sight of such aching beauty would infuse his soul with pain.