Checking his email was the first thing he did every morning because it didn’t require too much thought or any conversational skills while he waited for that first cup of coffee to work its magic.
She held onto the people and relationships she knew because, no matter how bad they might be for her, the devils she knew were less scary than the ones she didn't.
It probably didn’t speak very highly of her state of mind that sometimes when she was on the roof of Tyler’s apartment building she found herself wondering if she could fly.
The things he'd most prefer to forget are ones that keep reasserting themselves on his awareness, will he, nill he - nobody's fault, not even his, some of them.