“And if I'm the stars, Cricket Bell is entire galaxies.”
“I draw him closer by his tie and whisper into his ear, "Cricket Bell, I have been in love with you for my entire life.”
“Cricket Bell.” I smiled into my phone. “How did you get so wise?”
“Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.”
“Alex was a world. He was an entire galaxy. A universe of possibilities.”
“There were tiny stars behind my eyelids, a whole galaxy of tiny, spinning stars.”