l o n g s t o r y s h o r t

“I suppose we're both the villain in each other's story."

“He wished the unrelenting pain of loss didn’t have to be part of life, but it couldn’t be changed. All the platitudes in the world didn’t ease the hurt. It was something that had to be endured, not eradicated.”

“Sometimes people don't know why they're climbing. They only know it's better than hurting, standing still.”

“I will never regret not having children. What I regret is that I live in a world where in spite of everything, that decision is still not quite okay.”

“Reward: Your reward is advice. Fatherly advice. Don’t be a little bitch. There’s your reward.”

“With each day that passes, I care less about how others will punish me for loving Logan and more about not wasting this second chance.”

“We never know, from a distance, if someone swimming is actually drowning.”

“Our one day of marriage was recorded only by the cameras of strangers whose names I don’t remember, whose contact details I never took. To this day I still don’t know what we looked like together in our wedding outfits, Johan and Carrie, bound up in all that joy.”

“The feeling catches me off guard. Oh. Love.”

“When you have a meal that is just SO good it takes your breath away, you might stop, breathe deeply, close your eyes, and try to savor the moment, so it can live on in your memory forever.”

“Fortunately, some things stay true whether we believe in them or not.”

“In the tiny world of chess, have you ever wondered how crappy it is to be a pawn?”

“Target any healers within range or target anyone who thinks it’s okay to put mayonnaise on hotdogs!”

“I don’t know where the past hides, but I will meet you there.”

“You are the kind of soul one finds only once in a lifetime, and travels the next thousand searching for again I would do that for you. I could live and die, searching each lifetime, for you.”

“From far off an ambulance siren screams into the night. I glance in its direction and catch a pair of yellow eyes watching us from the brush. I run faster.”

“Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled "file and forget," and I can neither file nor forget. Nor will certain ideas forget me; they keep filing away at my lethargy, my complacency.”