"   It was more than friendship, but it was not love, and it wasn’t sad, but it sure as hell wasn’t happy, and we weren’t together, but there was no way we would ever be apart. It was a mess, because we were.   "

"   When somebody provokes your anger, the only reason you get angry is because you’re holding on to how you think something is supposed to be. You’re denying how it is. Then you see it’s the expectations of your own mind that are creating your own hell. When you get frustrated because something isn’t the way you thought it would be, examine the way you thought, not just the thing that frustrates you. You’ll see that a lot of your emotional suffering is created by your models of how you think the universe should be and your inability to allow it to be as it is.   "

"   In the story, you fall in love with a girl
on another planet. She’s been dead
for years, but through your telescope
you watch her laugh, laughing too.
You wave when she, remembering
her smallness, remembers the stars.   "

"   sometimes I get so angry
with myself
for allowing my feelings to fester up,
grow like twisted vines.
because I swore I’d be independent,
swore I’d keep away from temptation,
but here I am,
once more,
dabbling in the art of
feeling
just a little too much.   "