From Twinkle, with Love

by Sandhya Menon

Being a human belonging to the wallflower genus, I’m kinda used to swallowing my words instead of speaking them.

“We take pieces of them, and they take pieces of us. It’s not bad. It’s not good. It just is.”

“Our best friends, the ones we love the most, are the ones who can hurt us the most. Because look.” She pointed down to the powders. “We have had so many interactions with them, deep, meaningful interactions, that we cannot separate their pieces from ours. And if we try, we would only be getting rid of some of the best parts of ourselves.”