lion alex

- I was thinking, maybe monsters are like mushrooms. Every forest has mushrooms. - Mushrooms? - And sometimes, the rain and the dark can make them pop out of nowhere and grow and grow. Because, you konw, they all share a... a... - A root? - Yeah! We just need to figure out which ones are bad and which ones are good... - Yeah... but that's the hard part. I guess we can study them... and learn more about them?

Every time you look up the stars, it's like opening a door. You could be anyone, anywhere. You could be yourself at any moment in your life. You open that door and you realize you're the same person under the same stars. Camping out in the backyard with your best friend, eleven years old. Sixteen, driving alone, stopping at the edge of the city, looking up at the same stars. Walking a wooded path, kissing in the moonlight, look up and you're eleven again. Chasing cats in a tiny town, you're eleven again. You're in a rowboat. You're staring out the back of a car. Out there where the world begins and ends, it's like nothing ever stops happening.

Is it weird that we only miss things when they're gone, or is that inherent in the meaning of the word?"