Can I convince the person about whom I'm crazy to be crazy about me? The short answer is no. The long answer is no.

Run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.

He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered.

I've learned so much as both a writer and a human.

One thing any backpacker will tell you is that it's tedious and monotonous. You're bored sometimes, so you really have to make the fun in your head.

I set my toothbrush down, then leaned into the mirror and stared into my own eyes. I could feel myself disintegrating inside myself like a past-bloom flower in the wind. Every time I moved a muscle, another petal of me blew away. Please, I thought. Please.

He kissed me hard and I kissed him back harder, like it was the end of an era that had lasted all of my life.