The Sun Is Also a Star

by Nicola Yoon

love always changes everything.

And They Lived Happily Ever After.

I want the whole world to stop. There are too many moving parts that are outside of my control.

Hearts don’t break. It’s just another thing the poets say. Hearts are not made Of glass Or bone Or any material that could Splinter Or Fragment Or Shatter. They don’t Crack Into Pieces. They don’t Fall Apart. Hearts don’t break. They just stop working. An old watch from another time and no parts to fix it.

We’re on the Q train headed to Brooklyn.

Jamaica is in the Caribbean Sea. The water is this blue-green color and very calm. You can walk out for a long time and you’d still only be waist-deep.”

There’s still so much I don’t know about her.

But time and distance are love’s natural enemies.