Five Feet Apart

by Rachael Lippincott

I’m tired of living without really living. I’m tired of wanting things. We can’t have a lot of things. But we could have this.

“Cystic fibrosis will steal no more from me. From now on, I am the thief.”

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

“But I knew. She wished for new lungs for me.”

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

“We need that touch from the one we love, almost as much as we need air to breathe. I never understood the importance of touch, his touch . . . until I couldn’t have it.”