“I had a dream I put my hands inside my chest and held my heart to try to keep it still.”

“I know there are some people who see sound as colour, and I've always wondered if mean looks different than not mean. I bet it's purple.”

“Did you ever wish you had a book that would explain the full meaning of life's random happenings to you?”

“This is the thing about school dances. They make like it's supposed to be this other-worldly thing, but really it's just the people you see every day dressed up, standing in the gym in the dark with Red Hot Chili Peppers playing.”

“I put my hand on my chest, a habit I never quite shook after losing my heart.”

“My heart feels not so much in my chest as in my hands. I am carrying it along swiftly, as though I have become the messenger for what is going on inside me.”

“The same thing that had happened with the flowers was happening with my longing: once I held it in my hands, I didn't know where to put it.”