Walk Among The Stars

At the end as at the start, and through all the in-betweens, I love you.

Listen to me - I am your echo. I would rather break the world than lose you.

I want to meet you in every place I have ever loved.

But when I think of you, I want to be alone together. I want to strive against and for. I want to live in contact. I want to be a context for you, and you for me. I love you, and I love you, and I want to find out what that means together.

I ramble, it seems, when writing to the darkness by hand. How embarrassing. I'm quite certain I've never rambled a day in my life before this. Another thing to give you: this first, for me.

Words hurt. I can hide in words so long as I scatter them through my body; to read your letters is to gather flowers from within myself, pluck a blossom here, a fern there, arrange and rearrange them in ways to suit a sunny room.

Her pen had a heart inside, and the nib was a wound in a vein. She stained the page with herself. She sometimes forgets what she wrote, save that it was true, and the writing hurt.

I revel in it, as one revels in pursuits one does not need. The runner enjoys running when she need not flee a lion.

One person may wear different faces in different rooms.

Tell me something true, or tell me nothing at all.

Today we queried, questioned, and inquired. Promise me that come tomorrow, we will not stop asking why.

You don't have to make yourself OK for a good mother; a good mother makes herself OK for you.

It's always been fascinating to me how things can be simultaneously true and false, how people can be good and bad all in one, how someone can love you in a way that is beautifully selfless while serving themselves ruthlessly.

What's what saying? Behind every gorgeous woman, there's a man sick of screwing her? Well, it works both ways. No one mentions that part.

Do you understand what I'm telling you? When you're given an opportunity to change your life, be ready to do whatever it takes to make it happen. The world doesn't give things, you take things.

I think being yourself - your true, entire self - is always going to feel like you're swimming upstream.

I should have respected that while she had no place to tell me what I could and could not do with my body, I did have a responsibility to inquire about how my actions might affect her.