This Is How It Always Is

by Laurie Frankel

bowls of popcorn defenestrated,

defenestrate is one of my favorite words

It’s a good thing people’s needs don’t all arise at the same time; otherwise we wouldn’t be able to meet them all.

Ben was supposed to be the smart one, and loving Cayenne was stupid. He was smart enough to see that; he just wasn’t smart enough to do anything about it.

!!!

what mattered was if you were good and honest, and forgiveness solved everything. That

altitudinous arboreal connectivity.

funny phrase

When you’re alone keeping secrets, you get fear. When you tell, you get magic.

“Story is the best magic there is.”

you know what’s even better than happy endings?” “What?” “Happy middles.”