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though she was a small girl, she managed to collapse into an empty chair with all the drama of a tranqued rhino collapsing on the savanna.
She’s just extremely there, you know what I mean? More vivid than anything else in the room.
It’s such a powerful thing, to rewrite your own skin.”
some people choose their style to hide who they are and some choose their style to express it.
could create a vortex with herself at the center self-absorbed.
longed for someone I could throw everything I was at, who would receive it. Gather it from the space between us with the sheer power of their hands and their insight and their care, and contain it like a devastating blast.
As if our feelings were a cookie we were supposed to have broken in half, only I had gotten the bigger share and if I could just give it back to him somehow… If I could just understand, then I could take some of it
What if, with Christopher, I could burn the world down when I needed to, and he could extinguish a spot for us in the center of it, carve out a safe place for us while the fire raged outside.
he made me feel calm—as if he held the whole world in his hands and slowed it down or sped it up to whatever speed I was going.
“It feels like I’m three steps ahead of myself rolling out a perfect road to walk along.
