She was so pretty, not the kind of pretty that hits you at first, but the kind that blooms the longer you were with her. Like a flower, she was always like a flower to me.

Humans feel pain, they feel it hard and heavy and deep, and that right there is the only proof of life you will ever need.

Boys get real scared when girls say everything at once.

Her laugh was my favorite sound, and I think I was her favorite reason to laugh.

Music is the only place where time does not exist.

Why does everything move so fast when you are angry?

Men came to cities like this to get good and lost for a long time, maybe even forever.Well, I never remembered coming here, but I was lost, that was for damned sure.

I felt like summer sunsets or July fireworks or chasing down the ice cream truck.

People play games, the whole damned thing's a game. And friends are just a part of it. They lie, they pretend to know you, to get you. They even pretend to love you, sometimes. But they leave, they always do, in the end. You can try all you want. But I promise you, if there's one thing I know for sure about people, it's that they leave.