This is complicated,” you said, back on the napkin, and then looked at me. You wanted to pry me open, I could see it, drag me across our boundaries so we could feast together in secret from the rest of the world. “But,” you said, “no, not but. I love you.
You know how the nurses started asking me to rate my pain one to ten? I just started giving them random numbers. You can’t get to ten, I told the one with those earrings I want to yank out. You can’t get to ten because someone might slap you and that would hurt more.
Love makes the world go round, the hit songs collectively tell us, and the world is full of people you don’t know and might as well be nice to because they won’t leave.
To stop staring at you, I kept fiddling with the sugar until you stopped my hand with yours.
I thought it was one thing but it was the other, it was zero zero zero alone on the bus while you slept in the room I had to leave, and that’s why we broke up.
He told her then how sorry he was for last night, but not out loud.
She didn’t look like a girl who would ruin the whole thing at all.
I don’t have to answer to you,” Adam said, instantly and harshly. He brushed his pants off like he’d just buried his mother.
I gave you an adventure, right in front of you but you never saw it until I showed you.
He thought she knew what he meant, but the biggest mistake you can make is thinking they know what you mean.
She spun the car through a right turn that would have killed us all had we been minor characters.
I’m very happy for you guys.” I heard my voice, so false it was all the statues could do to keep themselves from rolling their eyes.
It’s why we broke up, Ed, a small thing that’s disappeared or maybe was never really in my hands in the first place.
Love is really liking someone a whole lot and not wanting to screw that up.
Te quise y ahora te devuelvo tus cosas, las saco de mi vida como a ti...
It is the presumed mission of all women, a quest for a man, and no amount of bloodshed can dissuade the myth. For a boy, people would say to her soon, in disbelief or even in admiration, and they would be all wrong.
One narrative, about the hated people in our lands, is that eventually they get what is coming to them.
A girl’s bag is an abandoned warehouse. Stupid people in horror movies are the only ones to venture in.
Nobody knows why men do things.
You have to love the whole person, if you are truly in love. If you are going to take a lifelong journey with somebody, you can’t mind if the other person believes they are leaving for that journey an hour earlier than you, as long as truly, in the real world, you are both leaving at exactly the same time.