Where the Lost Wander

by Amy Harmon

The pain. It’s worth it. The more you love, the more it hurts. But it’s worth it. It’s the only thing that is.”

The man who says never is quickly made a liar.”

“You are beautiful,” I whisper. “You only say that when you are dying or half-asleep,” she answers, not raising her gaze from her pencil, but her lips curve. “But I always think it.”