I don't understand how everything changes, how the layers of your life get buried. Impossible. At some point, at some time, we must all explode.
And there it is: Even though we’re standing in the same patch of sun-drenched pavement, we might as well be a hundred thousand miles apart.
Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side.
Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie.
And now I know why they invented words for love, why they had to: It's the only thing that can come close to describing what I feel in that moment, the baffling mixture of pain and pleasure and fear and joy, all running sharply through me at once.
I know that the whole point—the only point—is tofind the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse tolet them go.
I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.
