Singing in the rain. I'm singing in the rain. And it's such a fucking glorious feeling. An unexpected downpour and I am just giving myself into it. Because what the fuck else can you do? Run for cover? Shriek and curse? No--when the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it because if you can make yourself happy in the rain, then you're doing pretty alright in life.

It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can't even make the comparisons anymore, because my memories of that time have all the depth of a photograph. It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It's simply a matter of is and is no longer.

Because you also want to be on the other side of the window, living life instead of just thinking about it.

You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you.

Love doesn’t have to be on Valentine’s Day. It doesn’t have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn’t have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn’t have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third day.It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirt.It just has to be.

Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah

But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself.

Reading is not life. Reading is creating life in your head. And that can only help you so much in a storm.

Seria fácil demais dizer que me sinto invisível. Em vez disso, me sinto dolorosamente visível e totalmente ignorado. As pessoas falam com ela, mas é como se estivessem do lado de fora de uma casa, falando através das paredes. Ela tem amigos, mas são pessoas com quem passa o tempo, não com quem o divide.