“ I'd finally reached the end of myself, all my self-reliance and denial and pride unraveling into nothingness, leaving only a blank Alison-shaped space behind. It was finished. I was done.But just as I… R.J. Anderson
“ I don't know how to be anything but pretend," I replied, and it ached in me how true that really was. "But if I could be real, I'd be real for you. R.J. Anderson
“ What would happen if you stopped fighting, and gave yourself permission to feel? Not just the good things, but everything? R.J. Anderson
“ I hate it when people talk like friendship is less than other kinds of - as though it's some kind of runner-up prize for people who can't have sex. R.J. Anderson
“ I might not be ready to pour out my feelings to the world, but I’d had enough of trying to ignore them. R.J. Anderson
“ But there were worse things than disappointment, and I'd lived through several of them already. R.J. Anderson
“ I heard the universe as an oratorio sung by a master choir of stars, accompanied by the orchestra of the planets and the percussion of satellites and moons. The aria they performed was a song to break… R.J. Anderson
“ I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose. R.J. Anderson
