One Reckless Summer

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.
Albert Einstein

You were right when you said everything dies—even the very biggest things in the universe die sooner or later.”

She walks in beauty, like the night;

Of cloudless climes and starry skies.

Lord Byron

We have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
Tombstone epitaph of two amateur astronomer

But it was too late for the shoulda-coulda-woulda thing

that maybe we expected too much from you, put too many demands on you, and that it was hard to be perfect all the time

And sure, there could be some logical explanation for all this…but there wasn’t. There just wasn’t.
Except for one. He’d left her. Just like her mom. Just like Terrence. Just like the people she loved always did.

When did you get so weak, Brody? So weak that you actually thought you could depend on somebody, open yourself up like this?

She was so tired of trying to please other people