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“But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren't what people wanted to hear.”

“It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.”

“Pieces and parts were always easier to process. The full picture, the entire story, was another thing entirely. But you just never knew. Sometimes, people could surprise you.”

“Love is so unpredictable. That's what makes it so great.”

“All you could do was take on as much weight as you can bear. And if you're lucky, there's someone close enough by to shoulder the rest.”

“So while it seemed like you were seeing everything, you really weren't. Just bits and pieces that looked like a whole.”

“There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.”

“I just don't know," I said, my voice sounding bumby, not like mine, "how do you help someone who doesn't want your help. What do you do when you can't do anything?”

“I was worn out, broken: He had taken almost everything. But he'd been all I'd had, all this time. And when the police led him away, I pulled out of the hands of all these loved one, sobbing, screaming, everything hurting, to try and make him stay.”

“The further you go, the more you have to be proud of. At the same time, in order to come a long way, you have to be behind to begin with. IN the end, though maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.”

“It was always late at night, when everything and everyone else was quiet, that those voices would rise like ghosts, soft and haunting, filling your mind until sleep finally came.”

“You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop.”

“But it was okay not to fit in everywhere, as long as you did somewhere.”

“I wondered if he ever thought of me, and hated the pang I felt when I told myself he didn't.”

“Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said.
Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.”

“This is exactly what i wanted, as commitments had never really been my thing. And it wasn't like it was hard, either. The only trick was never giving more than you were willing to lose.”

“But sometimes you lose. Nothing you can do but admit it.
-Eli”

“Right now, though, I wanted not to think forward or backward, but only to lose myself in the words.”

“If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs.”