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Nothing like that happened. It never did when you wanted it to.
He needed me to speak, because his heart hurt, too. I didn’t want to be mean, but sometimes, it was dangerous to open my mouth and let words out. Other times, my throat closed up so tight the words couldn’t come out.
I didn’t want to enjoy the way the wind spun around me and pulled at my dress. It soothed me and I didn’t want to be soothed.
a man with a deep streak of lonely,
“I broke everything that made me happy,”
I could have told him there was no sense in rushing toward being dead. It would find you soon enough, and before it did there were pleasures to make your heart hurt less.
You make people interested in you by keeping secrets, not by passing them out like candy at Halloween.
The quizzes helped Renee empty her heart, and she filled it so quickly with the wrong things, it was no wonder she needed to empty it.
He approached food the same way he approached kissing: slowly, thoroughly, and with concentration.
Those letters seemed so wonderfully tragic to me. Each one a message he would never get. A note in a bottle, bobbing on the ocean. Lost.
That meant it wasn’t my wedding ring. When I pressed it to my mouth it was just a rock. The difference between a meteor falling through the atmosphere and a meteorite lying in the dirt.
gifts take up space in your heart. I needed that space now.
No woman had ever looked at me the way she did, or touched me that way. Like she wanted me, like I was worth wanting.
