You (You, #1)

by Caroline Kepnes

YOU walk into the bookstore

Work in a bookstore and learn that most people in this world feel guilty about being who they are.

If people could handle their self-loathing, customer service would be smoother.

Impossible Vacation by Spalding Gray.

Desperate Characters

You are Charlotte’s Web and I could love you.

I press my thumb into the wet ink on your receipt and the ink of Guinevere Beck stains my skin.

Nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands. Except for you, Beck. These past few days, I’ve learned so much.

The assholes are always puzzled when the order of the universe is restored, when they are held accountable for their cowardly, pretentious, loveless ways.

learn sign language

Honestly, Beck, of all these white motherfuckers on this boat right now (seriously, no black person would ever do this), how many do you think could pass a test on Oliver Twist? How many do you think read his lesser-known works?

problem with books is that they end. They seduce you. They spread their legs to you and pull you inside. And you go deep and leave your possessions and your ties to the world at the door and you like it inside and you don’t want for your possessions or your ties and then, the book evaporates.