Ghosted

by Rosie Walsh

We can perhaps only ever fall in love without knowing quite who we have fallen in love with.

I wondered how it was that you could spend weeks, months—years, even—just chugging on, nothing really changing, and then, in the space of a few hours, the script of your life could be completely rewritten.

the pain of lost possibility sometimes left me breathless.

The world has raised its whip; where will it descend?

“Life is too short to run around after someone who makes you miserable.”

Maybe you’re everywhere. I like that idea most. Up there in the pink-flushed clouds. Down here in the dampness of daybreak. Wherever I go, I look for you. And wherever I am, I see you.

“A silent phone brings out the very worst in us,”

Nobody warns you that life continues to be complicated after you’ve Done the Right Thing. That there is no reward, beyond some intangible sense of moral fortitude.