Krithika’s Reviews > The Lover's Dictionary > Status Update

"I look for that confirmation that if I didn’t have you, I’d still be a person someone would want."

"They curl into each other like apostrophes within a quotation mark as they talk."

"I want to take back the secrets I told you so I can decide now whether to tell them to you again."

"The key to a successful relationship isn’t just in the words, it’s in the choice of punctuation. When you’re in love with someone, a well-placed question mark can be the difference between bliss and disaster, and a deeply respected period or a cleverly inserted ellipsis can prevent all kinds of exclamations."

"I sat there as you excavated your boyfriends, laid the bones out on the table for me to see. I shifted them around, tried to reassemble them, if only to see if they bore any resemblance to me."

I learn the difference between a eulogy and an elegy, and discover which is more vital, in life and in death.

How genius to call them thumbnails, because what part of the body tells us less? (And yet, this is how I find you.)