How can something so wrong feel so right?

This is the definition of happiness: a whole day stretching out ahead of me, beautiful in its emptiness and simplicity.

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

There are no laws, no boundaries on feelings.We can love each other as much and as deeply as we want.No one, Maya, no one can ever take that away from us.

At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.

And the very important fact that I'm here to worry with you and go through all of this - every little bit of it - by your side, even your worst-case-scenario, should it somehow come to that. You wouldn't be doing any of it alone.' Her voice drops and she looks down at our hands, fingers entwined, resting on her lap. 'Whatever happens, there will always be us.

Lochie. The boy I once loved. The boy I still love. The boy I will continue to love, even when my part in this world is over too.