The silence wasn't
like the ones I'd known
lately, though: it wasn't empty as much as chosen. There's a entirely different
feel to quiet when you're
with some-one else, and at any moment it could be broken. Like the difference
between a pause and an
ending.

“Sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's…”

“I'd been running for years: there was nothing scarier, to me, than to just be s…”

“You’re always a kid around your parents… Unless they’re acting like children. T…”

“I spent a lot of time looking at that picture. Wondering what I’d think of that…”