Five Feet Apart

by Rachael Lippincott

If I’m going to die, I’d like to actually live first.

“Everyone in this world is breathing borrowed air.”

I didn’t know it was possible to want something so bad you could feel it in your arms and your legs and in every breath you take.

You don’t have time for me, I don’t have time for you. Simple as that.

I didn’t know it was possible for a person to make old things become new again.

If this year has taught me anything, it’s that grief can destroy a person.

“It’s just life, Will. It’ll be over before we know it.”

“You make me want a life I can’t have.”