silence in the dark you left behind

“I don’t know how to be human, with this much pain.”

"I never thought that the leaving was beautiful. Not when I have spent my whole life trying to stay."

sometimes i forget how i got here sometimes i forget how much i didn't want to survive.

“I have haunted talents. I am invisible. I can walk through walls. I can stand before you, and at no time, ever be seen. I can scream, and never be heard.”

“Oh, the soul is heavy, and the nights are long.”

'You get out of here and you don't look back. Never. You promise me you make it out and leave all this behind you.'

'I owe you . . . my tab. A real man settles his debts,' Patch said. 'Consider it settled. I'd have paid it a hundred times over, just for the honor of knowing you.'

'So tell me, just how long you been lost?' 'I don't recall a time when I wasn't.'

The crushing of a dream that perhaps had always been out of reach.

. . . I felt giddy with hope, for the end of exile in my own head, for someone who will understand me, someone who will see what I know and talk back to me about it. Is this so ridiculous? Isn't it possible?