Nina LaCour

All I have is a life's worth of school days. What came before school I can't remember. You can only sketch so many desks and teachers and chalkboards. You can only come home to so many dinners and homework assignments and nights of taking the garbage out. You can only go to so many museum field trips before you start to wonder, Is this it?

I'm sorry I left without telling you,' she says. 'I wasn't ready. I wanted it so much, and I wasn't ready for that.

He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much.