"We said good night and the click of the phone echoed down through my body as if I were hollow... Suddenly, as I was putting the last ones in water and sweeping up some stray leaves, I felt it. The crushing mass that I'd been carrying in my chest breaking up into shards. I put a hand to my heart and slumped down on the floor with my back against the bed." - The Elementals by Francesca Lia Block