“It was too heartbreaking to live with so many separations.”

“When I was younger, I craved friendship and closeness. I make bonds without acknowledging how quickly and permanently they would break. I took people lives' personally. I felt their friends could be my friends, their parents could be their parents. But after awhile, I had to stop. It was too heartbreaking to live with too many separations.”

“I find I very rarely live up to my words. And since you know me primarily through my words, there are oh so many ways I can disappoint.”

“I was treating the past as if it could be mined for clues, for reasons.But the past resists that.It holds too much evidence of too many things.”

“I wake up feverish, sore, uncomfortable.Is it sickness or is it heartbreak?I can't tell.The thermometer says I'm normal, but I'm clearly not.”

“People are always separable.”

“What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.”