and with a curt nod,
she turned away;
a smile blooming on her face.

he'll never know though.(:

... And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

“You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”

“You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”

It was nice to be alone, not to have to smile and look pleased; a relief to stare dejectedly out the window at the sheeting rain and let just a few tears escape.

Sometimes life is hard for no reason at all

“Kind people have a way of working their way inside me and rooting there.”

And in the end I couldn't do it. I realize now that wasn't the point. The point was I had a sister

“When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.”

“Sometimes you have to do things you don't want to do. To get something better, you know?”