Shoshanah

Reading Schopenhauer when you felt melancholy was like taking off your clothes when you felt cold

Don’t look on the internet for someone who is exactly like you. Look for someone who isn’t. Love is not to never fight. Love is always making up.

At twelve, she had already discovered the empty spaces that gathered between people.

It was like being stuck in the same song, with a chorus you had once liked but now made you want to rip your ears off.

Meredith turned to look at her sister. "You have wings.”

"Huh?"

"Maybe I'm like some ostrich or dodo bird. I stayed on the ground so long, I lost the ability to fly."

Even though I hadn't seen Rose since 1603 the love was still there, exactly as strong, and now it was hurting. It was hurting more than any physical pain could try to.