I like that you let yourself be surprised

To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.

All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.

Everything I ever said to you was true and is true.

Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

The phone was her worst enemy and her best friend but she never knew which until she answered it.

It’s natural to overlook and even sacrifice the things that belong to us most easily most gracefully. So here’s me asking you to please not make that mistake.