need is never a good basis for any relationship. it has to be much more than that.

You're giving up. You're slipping into being miserable and if you are being miserable, then it's all about you again. But it's not all about you. Love doesn't work that way.

Serrated, adj. And you said, "I'm not sure we can.

Because when something happens, she's the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.

Such a strange thing, to hold a six-year-old's hand. Especially a six-year-old you've only just met. A toddler will grab hold of your finger, and someone your own age will clasp on to your whole hand, but with six-year-olds it's something in between, this acknowledgment that they can't be the one to take hold, so you have to do all the holding, folding your hand around theirs, feeling so much bigger and responsible.

It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.

it's gonna hurt because it matters.