The morning sun reflected in the skyscrapers that circled us and a rainbow-patterned kite flashed above, glittering like fish scales.

It was like trying not to get a song stuck in your head.

There was a map by the door, showing all the Toyko train lines looping around one another like a tangle of blood vessels.

Stop being nice!’ I snapped. ‘You’re making it difficult for me to express my rage.’ ‘Seriously.

Karaoke. I’ve really missed this.’ ‘Yeah?

This is my first week back, and your last week, so what we have to do is eat everything.

The constant lying to my mom didn’t feel like the best decision I’d made all day. But it didn’t feel like the worst one, either.

You’re terrifying the way a book is right before it ends. You know? When you have to put it down because it’s too much to take in at once. You are the most terrifying person I know.’ He.

In the dark, he was nothing but a silhouette. He could have been anyone at all.

It might not be distance or time that takes you away from people. Maybe you decide when you let them go. But I can’t let go yet.