Most of the time we're loved for what we can do rather than for who we are.

“...it was a miraculous thing to be able to watch the person you love undetected,”

“I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own.”

“Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.”

“He was so close to her then that they owned every molecule of air in the tiny r…”