I Could Live Here Forever

by Hanna Halperin

I’d always thought of quiet as synonymous with steady. Partly because that’s what I’d always been. Leah: tall, quiet, predictable. I had emotions, though. Big, torrential emotions. But that was why I read. That was why I wrote. I wasn’t one to call attention to myself in real life.

“A relationship isn’t supposed to make you happy. You find happiness on your own. A partner is there to support you and build with you. It seems as though you’re looking for some magic person who’s going to solve all your problems, but you have to do that yourself. What we have together is complicated, but it’s good and real.”