We can never understand. We can only try, fumbling our way through the tunneled places, reaching for light.

“Everyone you trust, everyone you think you can count on, will eventually disapp…”

“Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the grou…”

“I’m with Julian,” I say at last. This, after all, is what I have chosen.”

“I reached and ran a finger along her collarbones, my favorite place: like the s…”