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There’s a difference between choosing him, even when he doesn’t choose you, and choosing happiness, choosing adventure, choosing a love which does not exhaust you and disappoint you and break you, but one which lifts you up.

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When you’ve given it your all and it still doesn’t work.

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Because it’s easier when there’s nothing there.

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It’s funny how the emptiness you created was so quickly filled by the most intense craving I’ve had for everything and anything about you.

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There’s a good chance I was drugged, I won’t ever know for certain.

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And she explains herself by saying, “We belong to nobody, and nobody belongs to us,” and I remember thinking that was incredibly reckless and damaging not just to herself but to the cat, and that of course people belong to us because I know what it feels like to belong to someone.