The world just chewed her up and spat her out

“Not everyone who is single is lonely; not everyone who is taken is in love.”

“Can you spend a lifetime alongside someone in this way? Not quite with them or a part of their life directly, but always being close. Waiting in the wings like an understudy, always playing the minor role instead of the lead you felt destined to play. Stealing glances of another’s life through doors left ajar you know will never open for you. It’s like living between breaths, speaking only in the gaps between words or living between two adjacent worlds. One where we each go home to separate houses and the other where we call each other home.”

“You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want.”

“There’s an ocean inside your chest.”