If this thesis were a child, I’d put it up for adoption and not even think twice about it. If this thesis were a cute, fuzzy puppy, I’d drop it off in the middle of a busy intersection and speed away.
But right now, our house is silent. And that silence between us is so loud.
Graham doesn’t even touch me and I feel it everywhere. Jason touches me everywhere and I feel it nowhere.
He’s just the right amount of confident and cocky. But he balances that out with his reverent side.
As soon as Corey figured out that I wasn’t the person my character was based on, he realized we weren’t compatible. I wasn’t heroic. I wasn’t simple. I was difficult. An emotionally challenging puzzle he wasn’t up for solving.
I realize why I find him so attractive. It’s because he makes me feel attractive.
And that’s what love at first sight is. It isn’t really love at first sight until you’ve been with the person long enough for it to become love at first sight.
I still feel all the comforts of childhood when I’m sick and my mother takes care of me.
Mommy said I shouldn’t talk to you if you ask me questions about her.
I’m a grammar snob. It should be your perfections.
He laughs. “What do I smell like?” “Petrichor.” He’s dragging his lips down my stomach. “I don’t even know what that means.
We came so close to losing everything we had built together because of something that was out of our control. Something that should have brought us closer together but instead pulled us further apart.
It needed to be rebuilt from the ground up, with an entirely different foundation. I started out our life together with certain expectations, and when those expectations weren’t met, I had no idea how to move forward.
It had been six months since they were born, and I still wished they didn’t exist.
Find something to fill all the empty corners.
I wanted to wake him up, frantic, and show him the blood. I wanted him to panic, to worry, to feel bad for me, to cry for me. To cry for me.
Going from being a nobody writer to co-author of a literary sensation is too much of a jump for me. I can already feel my anxiety sinking in just thinking about it.
Your focus is no longer on yourself. Your life becomes all about this beautiful tiny little human you created.
Your body and your heart don’t stop finding the beauty and the attraction in other people simply because you’ve made a commitment to one person.
It’s hard to hold on to someone who has long since slipped away.
Luckily, a Wi-Fi connection and a credit card make it easy to live life completely indoors in Manhattan.