Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you – sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever.

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Mistake, mistake, mistake. A strange word: stinging, somehow.

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But now I give in, let the anger surge. I’m sick of people acting like this world, this other world is the normal one, while I’m the freak. It’s not fair; like all the rules have suddenly changed and somebody forgot to tell me.

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Someday she will be saved, and the past and all its pain will be rendered as smoothly palatable as the food we spoon to our babies.

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Time and space recede and blast away like a universe expanding forever outward, and leaving only darkness and the two of us on its periphery, darkness and breathing and touch.

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Is this freedom? Is it happiness? I don’t know. I don’t care anymore. It is different – it is being alive.

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And when we are with Alex, I might as well not be there. They speak in a language of whispers and giggles and secrets; their words are like a fairy-tale tangle of thorns, which place a wall between us.

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It’s amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.

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Nobody ever said life was fair.

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That’s when you realize that most of it-life, the relentless mechanism of existing-isn’t about you. It doesn’t include you at all. It will thrust onward even after you’ve jumped the edge. Even after you’re dead.

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This is what hatred is. It will feed you and at the same time turn you to rot.

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For the first time in a long time, I actually look at her. I’ve always thought Lena was pretty, but now it occurs to me that at some point – last summer? last year? – she became beautiful.

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There is only what you want and what happens. There is only grabbing on and holding tight in the darkness.

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All this time, I thought we were growing apart because I was leaving Lena behind. But really it was the reverse. She was learning to lie. She was learning to love.

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Live free or die. Four words. Thirteen letters. Ridges, bumps, swirls under my fingertips. Another story. We cling tightly to it, and our belief turns it to truth.

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Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions.

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The worst is knowing I can’t tell anybody what’s happening -or what’s happened- to me. Not even my mom.

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In a world without love, this is what people are to each other: values, benefits, and liabilities, numbers and data. We weigh, we quantify, we measure, and the soul is ground to dust.

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The priests and the scientists are right about one thing: At our heart, at our base, we are no better than animals.

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My heart is fluid and soaring. There’s no longer any space between heartbeats.

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And for a moment – for a split second – everything else falls away, the whole pattern and order of my life, and a huge joy crests in my chest. I am no one, and I owe nothing to anybody, and my life is my own.

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