"There are so many things that demand to be said. Where did you go? Do you ever think about me? You've ruined me. Are you okay? But of course, I can't say any of that."
"Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out."
"You dumb-ass,"I crooned, kissing her on the forehead. "You don't share me. You own me."
"It's my turn to see you through,' she whispers, coming back to me and wrapping me in her blanket as I lose my shit all over again. She holds me until I recover my Y chromosome."
"In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's."
"So, this is how it's become? This is how I've become? A walking contradiction? I'm surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it's like I don't know what to do with it, I don't know how to be a normal person anymore."