<i>The words you can’t find, you borrow.<br />We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone.<br />My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart.<br />We are not quite novels.</i><br />The analogy he is looking for is almost there.<br /><i>We are not quite short stories.</i> At this point, his life is seeming closest to that.<br /><i>In the end, we are collected works.</i>