I have taken advantage of other people's weaknesses in order to cover my own.

As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we’re really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health.

I'm not in love with you.

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

detachment, n. Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it.

Even if neither of us got what we wanted, we found freedom in the third choices.

yearning n. and adj. At te core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect.