Wish You Were Here

by Jodi Picoult

“How come the people who don’t even notice you exist are the ones you can’t stop thinking about?”

The sky looks like an overturned bowl of glitter;

Busy is just a euphemism for being so focused on what you don’t have that you never notice what you do.

“There have been a few times in my life when I thought all the stars had aligned, and I was exactly where I was meant to be.

Finn has always been my anchor. The problem is that anchors don’t just keep you from floating away. Sometimes, they drag you down.