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Tonight, I’ve concluded two things about gin: it tastes like pinecones and is clearly the devil’s sauce.
I’ve always been obsessed with words—so why can’t I seem to write a single one?
I used to refer to her as social lubricant, but Robert made me promise to never use that phrase again.
“What I said before was true,” he says quietly, as if he’s speaking only to me, “about how Holland tries to see herself clearly and seems to end up in a pretty good place. But I also think she sees herself as a supporting character, even in her own life story.”
“I learned a lot about you tonight. You can tell a lot about a person by what their loved ones say.”
“You know,” he says sleepily, “secrets are currency.”
“Mam says that secrets unlock something between friends.”
He explodes into action, grabbing his clothes from the couch, jogging back to the bathroom. I catch a flash of bare ass and find religion.
“I’ve had friends like that,” he says, “the ones you outgrow but keep anyway.”
“I tink you’re going to be amazing.” He meets my eyes in the mirror. “You tink you can give me shit for my accent?” “I tink you sort of like it.”
I only get one shot at this, and right now, I’m finding my value only in being valuable to others. How do I find value for me?
“I like seeing you speechless.” “I am… yes. Out of words.”
he looks like he’s eating cereal wearing nothing but his wedding ring. Help.
“Honey, you are only twenty-five. You don’t need to have it all figured out.”
Sometimes a job can just be a job. We aren’t all going to win the rat race.
“I want to tell you I’m sorry,” he says, voice a low burr. “Come home and kick me in the teeth if you need to, but then kiss me.”
“I’ve never done this before. I just know I’m falling for the girl I married.”
It’s like we’ve walked out of a movie theater thinking we were together only to realize we watched two different shows.
But the worst feeling is the deep confusion inside me about why he would love me at all; I feel stale and tiresome.
“We could work on us, but I’m not happy with me right now. I want to do something, not just watch you do everything.”
