You know you've checked into Heartbreak Hotel for real when you feel less desirable than uncooked fish.

It's what everyone wants when they're breaking someone's heart: to be rid of the person and yet absolved of guilt, of the unhappiness they've caused. They want their rationalizations heard and gulped up by the wronged, and they want their victims to go away, peacefully. To never be haunted again.

Somehow everything I own smells of you, and for the tiniest moment it's all not true

Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.

Hold on to the thought that no emotion lasts forever, no matter how wonderful or how terrible the emotion may be. The tears may last a little longer than you would like, but it will get better. I promise.

He needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.