Breathless

by Jennifer Niven

All I can think is how one minute the floor was there and now it’s not. How you could go through an entire day, every day, not thinking about the floor or the ground because you just assume it will always be there. Until it isn’t.

At some point, you have to start trusting that there’s a floor again. What’s the worst that can happen? Okay, so it disappears. You’ve already survived one disappearing floor, and you’re still here, walking around. So you can survive others.

“Captain, we’re two people who didn’t expect to meet each other but did, probably years before we were supposed to.”

TO LIVE IS THE RAREST THING IN THE WORLD. MOST PEOPLE EXIST, THAT IS ALL.

I love you more than words.”

“You and Saz may have made it your own, but you got it from your dad.”