Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind.

Yes, we could talk to you for days on end about all the bad first dates. Those are stories. Funny stories. Awkward stories. Stories we love to share, because by sharing them, we get something out of the hour or two we wasted on the wrong person. But that's all bad first dates are: short stories. Good first dates are more than short stories. They are first chapters. On a good first date, everything is springtime. And when a good first date becomes a relationship, the springtime lingers. Even after it's over, there can be springtime.

I suspected that what happens in hotel rooms rarely lasts outside of them. I suspected that when something was a beginning and an ending at the same time, that meant it could only exist in the present.

Dispel, v. It was the way you said, “I have something to tell you.” I could feel the magic drain from the room.

apparel, n.: There are times I don’t mind doing the laundry, because folding your clothes reminds me of the shape of you.

It's you. You deserve this. There is a reason this is happening to you.

It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it’s lonely, because you feel you can’t talk about it.