I opened my mouth and kissed you then, the first time all night, attacked you and surrendered completely, and let’s get out of here. I’m ready, I’m finished, let’s not break up, no, no. Take me home, my boyfriend, my love.
She gave me a hug and for a second I was embraced by a body that makes me want to go home and never eat again.
I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept, probably because I have been reading almost the entire time.
For Beatrice, summer without you is as cold as winter. Winter without you, is even colder.
Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you don’t care for spill orange soda all over themselves.
If you have ever slept in a covered casserole dish on the highest peak of a mountain range, then you know that it is an uncomfortable place to lay one’s head, even if you find a dish towel inside it that can serve as a blanket.
The smell of cooking food is often a calming one.
Someone feeling wronged is like someone feeling thirsty. Don’t tell them they aren’t. Sit with them and have a drink.
Nobody wants to fall into a safety net, because it means the structure in which they’ve been living is in a state of collapse and they have no choice but to tumble downwards. However, it beats the alternative.
People who say money doesn’t matter are like people who say cake doesn’t matter – it’s probably because they’ve already had a few slices.
Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences.
You’d think that sweet would be a land far, far away from irritating, but as it turns out they’re right next door, and always having border disputes.
Why haven’t we fixed sick yet? You scientists there – put down those starfish and HELP us. I hereby demand that all the people who are good at math make the world free of illness. The rest of us will write you epic poems and staple them together into a booklet.
You should never stick something that you are allergic to into your mouth, especially if that thing is cats.
So she loved him. She just did immediately and again often and clearly naturally and soundly and obviously and many others.
Tell me what it is, or prepare to eat harpoon.
Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.
They looked at each other like a pair of parentheses.
I’m not a believer in predetermined fates, being rewarded for one’s efforts. I’m not a believer in karma. The reason why I try to be a good person is because I think it’s the right thing to do. If I commit fewer bad acts there will be fewer bad acts, maybe other people will join in committing fewer bad acts, and in time there will be fewer and fewer of them.
This is how it is in life and love. In life and love we are with people for a while, and then we join other people, people we have not met, and we walk with them, and we leave behind all the things we used to be. Sometimes we leave people behind too... This happens everyday. Everyday this happens and scarcely anybody cares.