The Rest Of Us Just Live Here

Then she pulls my shirt off over my head, and there’s no one in the world except me and her.

You can’t choose not to feel,” Henna says.
“But you can choose how to act.”

Because I’m the broken one

. And there’ll be a tomorrow, of course there will, when it all begins again.

“Everything’s always ending. But everything’s always beginning, too.”

“I don’t want to be an indie kid, Mike. I should be one. I’m gay. I’m part God. Jared isn’t even my first name–”

“Mercury,”

It felt like my heart was breaking – and it was breaking, over Jared, over graduation, over everything – but it was okay because Henna Henna Henna…

“It’s like you’re twins sometimes.”

“Good,” I say. “Good.”

if I want, see the spiral just there, ahead of me, waiting

“That’s not the story that’s happening,” Mel says to him. “We’re not the kind of people that story happens to.”