If you hope, get ready for a disappointment.
Is it really lying if all you’re doing is keeping your mouth shut, about something that’s nobody’s business anyway?
Here’s what they do not tell you about falling in love: there’s not always a soft landing beneath you. It’s called falling, because it’s bound to break you.
According to natural selection, bees should not exist. Although workers construct the comb, tend to the queen, and feed the larvae, they’re sterile themselves, and don’t pass those productive genes to the next generation. Plus, stinging is suicide, and passing on a suicide gene makes no biological sense. And yet, the species has been around for a hundred million years. Why? A biologist will say it’s because of group selection.
But let’s be real. When you’ve already failed at killing yourself, anything else you might screw up seems minor.
It was Mark Twain who noticed that, in German, the noun for fish is masculine, the one for fish scales is feminine, and the word for fishwife is neuter. These are the thoughts that go through.
I think my heart can’t possibly hurt any more than it already does.
Broken heart syndrome is a lot like a heart attack symptom-wise, but it’s caused by emotional trauma instead of heart disease.
I catalog the breadth of his shoulders, the damp curls at the nape of his neck; the way the tendons in his forearms shift and play as he scrolls through his texts. It’s shocking, sometimes, to be confronted with this when a second ago he sat on my shoulders, trying to pull down a star and unravel a thread of the night.
Being gay or straight,” says Elizabeth, “is about who you want to go to bed with. Being trans – or cis – is about who you want to go to bed as.
I love the thought that, even when she is gone, my sheets will still retain that memory.
This time I don’t bother with words; the ones we need don’t exist in the English language. Even the syllable grief feels like a cliff, and we’ve fallen.
There are nonbinary people, or enbys, who see gender as a spectrum – which it is – and want to express themselves anywhere along that spectrum as an act of freedom. Sometimes people call that genderfucking or genderqueer.
We’re conditioned to seeing men holding guns, but not men holding hands.
A name was once seen as part of the soul, and now I understood its magic... It’s why, as long as someone held your name on their lips, you were alive.
People always talk about how their love for you is unconditional. Then you reveal your most private self to them, and you find out how many conditions there are in unconditional love.
It’s weird, what happens to memories, when they’re all you have.
My father’s father fought in World War II, and when he came back from it, he was never quite right. He drank a lot and wandered the house in the.
It willna matter, after a time, that Maggie and Fee have gone,′ Angus said softly. ‘What matters now and for always, Jamie, is that they went the way they wished.
I think there’s a lot of stuff we don’t know about the way the brain works,” Rodney says carefully. “But I also think there’s a lot of stuff we don’t know about how the world works.” He raises his brows. “Oh,” he adds. “And get yourself a shrink.