“And soon all of us will sleep under the earth, we who never let each other sleep above it.”
“Most of the time we just stay quiet and listen to the city outside and hold onto each other before the sleep takes over. Before the sleep gets us.”
“As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.”
“You’ll fight with each other, of course, but never go to sleep angry. That was always my mistake.”
“We spread our sleeping bags on the snow and crawled inside. The vantage point was dizzying. It was impossible to tell whether the comet was above us or we were above the comet; we were all falling through space, missing the stars by inches.”
“We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.”