Less than a month ago all of August still stretched before us - long and golden and reassuring, like an endless period of delicious sleep

You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.

I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like – like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.

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

I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like — like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.

Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That’s what it is: an edge, a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side.

I guess that's what saying goodbye is always like- like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.

The butterflies are working their way up from my stomach into my head, making me feel dizzy, and I try to calm myself by imagining the ocean outside, its ragged breathing, the seagulls turning pinwheels in the sky. It will be over soon, I tell myself. It will be over soon and then you’ll go home, and you’ll never have to think about the evaluation again.

I guess that's just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

'Requiem' has been controversial because people don't feel I gave it closure.