Atmosphere

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Bravery is being unafraid of something other people are afraid of. Courage is being afraid, but strong enough to do it anyway.”

She can see the past, but it is now tinged with the excruciating inevitability of the present moment.

She knows she will get through this—these hours will pass with one outcome or another, and she will physically survive it. But she is not sure, when it is all over, if she will ever come back to herself.

But to love Frances was to be always saying goodbye to the girl Frances used to be and falling in love again with the girl Frances was becoming.

Space belonged to no one, but Earth belonged to all of them.