More Than This

by Patrick Ness

Revealing the horse screaming from above the mantelpiece.

Uh…

A world made of words, Seth thinks, where you live for a while.

We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn’t true.”

If there really is more to life, I want to live all of it.

No, life didn’t always go how you thought it might. Sometimes it didn’t make any sense at all.

And love and care have all kinds of different faces, and within them, there’s room for understanding, and for forgiveness, and for more.