The first sign that something is wrong is Andrew’s wife running to us, shaking and crying. - Hugh Howey

A soul can’t be pinned and made to heal. It has to be talked into stillness and quietude. It has to want it.

Love comes as fast as shrapnel in the trenches. It’s indiscriminate. It gets whoever’s closest. When it’s your time, it’s your time.

But I can’t say the words. This is how relationships are most like the things I collect: We build these hard exteriors. We pull ourselves inside, block off the only way in, don’t let anyone see our true selves.