I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn’t forget, I’m alive, I know I’m alive, I mustn’t forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that.

I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.

But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven’t room for any other desires.

My witness is the empty sky.

She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.