"We lay there and looked up at the night sky and she told me about stars called blue squares and red swirls and I told her I'd never heard of them. Of course not, she said, the really important stuff they never tell you. You have to imagine it on your own."
"He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time."
"Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left."
"Start here & go until you die, he said. What's so complicated about that?"
"I'm not sure if there's one right place I'm supposed to be, he said, but I know a couple of wrong places I'd give a second try in a heartbeat."
"He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time."