Your job is to focus on my personal happiness, she said, & I've got big plans, so break time is over.
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?
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.
A few said they'd be horses. Most said they'd be some sort of cat. My friend said she'd like to come back as a porcupine. I don't like crowds, she said.
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.
Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.
If you're right & I'm not, I'm going to be hell to live with, she said. So, you better think about that next time you want to be right.
I don't really like coffee, she said, but I don't really like it when my head hits my desk when I fall asleep either.