"I want you to spend the night," you said. And it was definitely your phrasing that ensured it. If you had said, "Let's have sex," or "Let's go to my place," or even "I really want you," I'm not sure we would have gone quite as far as we did. But I loved the notion that the night was mine to spend, and I immediately decided to spend it with you.

no matter how happy we are, no matter how much we want our night to stretch out infinitely, sleep is inevitable.

Every day I am someone else. I am myself-I know I am myself-but I am also someone else. It has always been like this.

..I've been trying to argue myself into thinking these things don't matter, A. Really,I have. But I've lost the argument. And I can't keep having it, when I know what the real answer is.

Her vulnerability is open, but she’s safe within it.

My mother said I should have a 'change of scenery.' The word scenery made be think of a play. And as we were driving around, it made sense that way. Because no matter how much the scenery changed, we were still on the same stage.

I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.