Love that ends is the shadow of love; true love is without beginning or end.
You are mine. I recognize you. We twist our souls around each other's miseries. It is that which makes us family.
She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.
Inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce, and that is who we are.
But there had to be a quota. An upper limit to the number of miracles one is privileged to in a lifetime. How many times can a beloved reappear?
A good mixtape didn't just gather together a bunch of love songs, but instead created an emotional narrative specific to your affection. The stories in most of my favorite collections are collected more like songs on a mixtape than, say, collected like spare change. By which I mean they are in conversation with each other and work to become larger than their parts.
We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.
Shopping is actually very similar to farming a field. You can't keep buying the same thing, you have to have a bit of variety. Otherwise you get bored and stop enjoying yourself.
What mom cares about most is that I'm happy, healthy and enjoying my life.
I don't like all the attention. I think it's better to let my work do the talking.
We are neither worse nor better than those who eye us critically.