There is nothing to fear. Nothing to worry about. Grieve nothing in this transitory world,” he says softly.

I lived in a really dark place. I wasn’t safe in my own mind. I woke up every morning hoping to die and then spent the rest of the day wondering if maybe I was...

His hands are holding my cheeks, and he pulls back just to look me in the eye and his chest is heaving and he says, “I think,” he says, “my heart is going to explode,”...

Doubt had married my fear and moved into my mind, where it built castles and ruled kingdoms and reigned over me, bowing my will to its whispers until I was little more than an acquiescing...

Please,” he says. “I’m begging you to stop.”I still. “I can’t stomach your pain,” he says. “I can feel it so strongly and it’s making me crazy- please,” he says to me. “Don’t be sad....

I do know that I don’t want to wake him.We were up very late last night.

I feel like I’ve been split open and stuffed with sunshine.

I want you to be happy,” I tell him, my eyes searching his. ‘I want you to have a family. I want you to be surronded by people who care about you,” I say. ‘You...

I mean, you know—like, a cute beast. A little beast that tears shit up and breaks the earth and sucks the life out of people.

I sigh. “I don’t know what’s happening to me.””They’re called hormones.”I shoot him a dirty look. “I’m serious.””Me too.” He cocks his head at me. “That’s like, biological and shit. Scientific. Maybe your lady bits...

This is not a funny moment. It’s not. I’m not laughing

Shut up, Kenji,” he repeats in a whiny voice, mocking me.

So that’s it?” Kenji says. “You just like him for his personality, huh?””What?””All of this,” Kenji says, waving a hand in the air, “has nothing to do with him being all sexy and shit and...

We’re too different now. We want different things. And this?” I say nodding at our hands. “All this managed to prove is that you are extremely good at turning me off

just stop. Just—I can’t even talk to you right now.