“It is like I'm always thinking to my self, I'd like to meet someone else”

“I'm just not prepared to be treated like this anymore.''Treated like what?'She sighed, and it was a moment before she spoke. 'Like you always want to be somewhere else, with someone else.”

“Even though I'm sleeping again, everything still feels a little rickety, like I'm here but not quite here, like I'm just a stand-in for my real self, like someone could just reach over and pinch me and I'd deflate. I thought I was feeling better, but I don't know anymore.”

“The world, I sometimes think, is filled with someone liking someone who likes someone else who likes someone else.”

“She was so beautiful, like someone who you will never meet, but always dream of meeting, like someone who is too good for you.”

“I'd like to give you my heart, but since that might be inconvenient, I've brought you someone else's.”