Excerpt

"Are we ever really integrated into each other's lives? Are human beings able to truly love on another and become more than extras? The thought fascinated me; I did not know what that was like. We are such solitary planets, traversing this earth in our own separate orbits. We may collide, but we never melt into each other until we are to the point of being inseparable, where I cannot tell my mountains, my clouds, my molten core from yours. At some point, perhaps, I believed that. But without this skin to tell me where I end, I will dissolve into the universe. If I melted into you, where would my boundaries be?"