I get it now. I get it. The things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end.

“and I told myself -- as I've told myself before -- that the body shuts down the…”

“But then in middle school science, Mr. Martinez asked who among us had ever fan…”

“I never wish I could go back and write more, no. I spent a long, long time tryi…”

“He was looking for the most hurtful way to tell the truth, but of course I alre…”