“Hoping to Fall Out:Leaning out as far as she can, hoping she'll fall soon, so she can stop worrying about whether it will happen or not.”

“Hoping something will happen soon, so she can sit down & watch it with a fresh bowl of popcorn.”

“I push the interest, because I can't stop getting hopeful that she'll latch onto something that will so consume her that she can forget, for long, long periods of time, how inherently difficult her life is.”

“I was thinking about this girl you love so much," she said, "And this place I love so much. And how that happens. How you can just fall into it.”

“I caught myself thinking about falling in love with someone who I hoped was out there right now thinking about the possibility of me, but I quickly banished the notion. It was that kind of thinking that landed me in this situation to begin with. Hope can ruin you.”

“The older I get, the more I see there are these crevices in life where things fall in and you just can't reach them to pull them back out. So you can sit next to them and weep or you can get up and move forward. You have to stop worrying about who's not here and start worrying about who is.”