Sometimes I hate him. When he does the dishes, he shakes off each one before setting it in the drying rack. Water flies everywhere. A couple of drops always hit me in the face. I...

Love is illogical. You fall into it like a manhole. Then you’re just stuck. You die in love more than you live in love.

Okay”, I breathed. “Then what will it take?” I was completely out of my element. Begging a girl to go on a date with me. This was fucked up.””Miss it.”I stared into her cold, blue...

My mom just loved me through all of it.

One is a choice, and one is not.

We are lovers, fear and I. She calls to me, and I let her in.

She was my opposite, but I wanted to be like her. I wanted to fall in love underneath a tree, fast and hard. I wanted someone to forget me and then remember me in their...

I like pain. I like when it lingers. It reminds a person of what they’ve lived through.

Women hold all the power. They should use it like a whip, not offer it up like a sacrifice.

I discovered that private things were mostly sour. They sat spoiling in the corners of your heart for so long that by the time you acknowledged them you were dealing with something rancid.

Tell me a truth, Senna.””I don’t know how.””Then tell me a lie.””I don’t love you.””The truth is for the mind,” he says. “Lies are for the heart. So let’s just keep lying.

What did I get in return? Coldness and emotional detachment. You are selfish and bitter and you wouldn’t know a good thing if it fell out of the sky at your feet.

That’s why writers write—to say things loudly with ink. To give feet to thoughts; to make quiet, still feelings loudly heard.

Leah” Olivia says quietly, “if you point at me again I’m going to break that manicured finger right off your hand. Now turn around and smile, your daughter is waking up.

I’m afraid.” Olivia to Caleb”Afraid of what?” Caleb.”Of how vulnerable you make me.” Olivia.”I make you vulnerable because you love me. That’s the price you pay for love, baby girl.” Caleb.

There is a string that connects us that is not visible to the eye. Maybe every person has more than one soul they are connected to, and all over the world there are these invisible...

He was like a jalapeño, bright and smooth, but dangerously hot. A small part of me wanted to bite him.