“I looked around at the rooms that I did not see as rooms but more as a landscape for my emotions, a biography of memory.”

“When you sit in silence long enough, you learn that silence has a motion. It glides over you without shape or form, exactly like water. Its color is silver. And silence has a sound you hear only af...”

“I heard silence, silence infinite as the bottom of the ocean, a silence that sealed.”

“I believed I could identify the scent of the sky as I stood there, a blue menthol fragrance similar to the scent of seawater that sprayed into my face when I first dove into the ocean. That initial...”

“And there is my payment the rubies in your cheeks. Are you properly scandalized by your wicked behavior? If you were Catholic, you'd singe the ears of the priest you confessed to. Do you remember m...”

“I think thisll definitely tide me over while were apart,Bones laughed, dragging me into his arms with far more strength and quickness than was fair, considering I still had trouble making my limbs ...”

“He f**ks even better than he looks, I settled on saying. Several heads turned. I didnt care; I was pissed. And that beautiful face is going to be clamped between my legs as soon as we get home, don...”

“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”

“Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.”

“So its true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”

“I guess all the time I spend on social media has made me believe that love exists above the surface, that its supposed to be light all of the time.”

“The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of lifes most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become.”

“I guess all the time I spend on social media has made me believe that love exists above the surface, that it’s supposed to be light all of the time.”