The Infinite Sea

Sometimes you’re in the wrong place at the wrong time and what happens is nobody’s fault. You just want to feel bad so you’ll feel better.

Don’t decide how you feel about something before you try

and the brown stems glistened in the perpetual twilight

the time when I was the thing worth living for and he was the thing worth dying for

I thought I was being tough by pretending, calling it being optimistic, brave, keeping my head up or whatever bullshit seemed to fit the moment. That’s not tough. That’s the very definition of soft

My anger is greater than the sum of all lost things.

but even the most open person has a private, sacred place where no one else may go.

Dying didn’t bother him. Dying without knowing what happened to his brother bothered him.

“Sacrificial goat,” Ben said with a nasty smile. “I like it.”

and I fell a thousand miles into those damn eyes, which is why the honey technique doesn’t fit me: I’m more the fly when I’m around him.