Sad. And real. 
 Favorite Quotes: 
 Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it. 
 aloof, adj. 
 It has always been my habit, ever since junior high school, to ask that question: "What are you thinking?" It is always an act of desperation, and I keep on asking, even though I know it will never work the way I want it to. 
 There was a pause. I was still scared by every gap in our conversation, fearing that this was it, the point where we had nothing left to say. I was still trying to impress you, and I still wanted to be impressed by you, so I could pass along pieces of your impressiveness in stories to my friends, convincing myself this was possible. 
 "I want my books to have their own shelves," you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to live together. 
 Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it. 
 Pairing is a social construction. It is by no means necessary for everyone to do it. Maybe I'm better like this. Maybe I could live my life in my own world, and then simply leave it when it's time to go. 
 I never meant to depend so much on someone else.