Shy” was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. “Snotty” was the interpretation she got from people her own age.

She cared about him too much, and he was a dangerous person to love. He wouldn't love her back.

What Daniel taketh away, Daniel giveth.

She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time

You forget your victories, but you remember the losses.

Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do.

Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.