Twelfth Knight

by Alexene Farol Follmuth

I’m the kind of girl that other people want to make suffer because I refuse to be as small as they want me to be. I know that, and I don’t take it personally.

Someone who keeps colliding with you, over and over. In everything you love, he’s there, too, and real or not, you can exist in every universe with ease because of him. Because for every version of him, there is a corresponding one of you.

wanting someone in your life doesn’t have to mean you’re weak. It doesn’t mean you’re soft. It just means there’s someone in this world who makes you like everything just a little bit more when they’re with you, and in the end, isn’t that something?” She looks at me again, half smiling. “Life is hard enough without depriving yourself of joy.”

“Everyone makes friendship seem like garden parties and sleepovers when really it’s Jurassic Park for emotions.”