Ivory and Bone

It's odd, I think, how the thing you love most in a person can also be the thing you sometimes wish you could change

What we left behind can’t be seen; what we gathered can’t be carried.

Friendship requires truth, and there is no truth in her.

Some people can see things with their hearts. Others need to see them with their eyes.

Why don't you tell me a story?

Tell me something wonderful- a story that's startling and marvelous.

I can't change the pain you suffered in the past, but I can do everything possible to prevent the pain you might suffer in the future.

I have no other choice. If I stop, I could die. If I stop, you could die.

There is strong danger in a person who can create such powerful deceit they can no longer distinguish their own lies from the truth.

But at this moment, this one word feels like the answer to every question: You.

Of course, I know that love is sometimes like that—some men love men, some women love women.

The starkness of this truth startles me, illuminates an awareness in me of something I could not—or would not—acknowledge before. I cannot let you die, because I cannot face a future without you.