But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don’t.
It wasn’t like I was some expert on the meaning of being supportive. Was it being loyal even against your better judgement? Or, like Olivia, was it making your displeasure known from the start, even when someone didn’t want to hear it?
No, no, no to Tallyho.
Call it crazy, or just chicken salad.
You own a Tic Tac. Gum is just borrowed. – Esther.
Looking at the pond, all I could think was that it is an incredivle thing, how a whole world can rise from what seems like nothing at all.
Clearly, sharing something could take you a long way, or at least to a different place than you’d planned. Like a friendship or a family, or even jsut alone on a curb on a Saturday, trying to get your bearings as best you can.
It was just perfect, just right all at once.
Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn’t appreciate and value you.
It’s still a memory worth having, even if it’s not exactly what you imagined.
He’d always had that fearless optimism that made cynics like me squirm. I wondered if it was enough for both of us. I would never know from here, though. And time was passing. Crucial minutes and seconds, each one capable of changing everything.
Maybe that’s what you got when you stood over your grief, facing it finally. A sense of its depths, its area, the distance across, and the way over or around it, whichever you chose in the end.
She tried to be someone people liked. She tried to be someone people disliked. But all I became was someone who didn’t succeed with anything I tried to be.
But all I could think of was how when nothing made sense and hadn’t for ages, you just have to grab onto anything you feel sure of.
I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind.
The language of solace, and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end.
Morning would come before we knew it. It always did. But we still had the night, and for now, we were together, so I just closed my eyes and drank it all in.
Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.
What do you do when you finally hear everything you’ve always thought said aloud?
The truth was, I wasn’t sure. But I wanted to keep believing people could change, and it was certainly easier to do so when you were in the midst of it.