Instructions for Dancing

by Nicola Yoon

“It’s okay you’re feeling cynical these days. It’s okay if you don’t trust the world so much right now. You have good reasons.”

It was beautiful. But it was sad too. Both things, and at the same time. I don’t know why so much of life is like that.

see. Grief to me feels like an endless landscape of white light. No secrets. And no surprises either. You can see clearly all you have lost. Everything that’s no longer there.

The problem with broken hearts isn’t that they kill you. It’s that they don’t.

just because a thing ends doesn’t make the thing any less real. Just because everything is different now doesn’t mean we didn’t love each other once. Maybe we will again.