You never let things go unanswered for too long. Emails. Phone calls. Questions. As if you know the waiting is the hardest part for me.

It's only in the finer points that it gets complicated and contentious, the inability to realize that no matter what our religion or gender or race or geographic background, we all have about 98 percent in common with each other.... For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.

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

You went and broke our lives. You are so much worse than a cheater. You killed something. And you killed it when its back was turned.

It's only a game if there is an absence of meaning. And we've already gone too far for that.

I'll see you later, he says, and as he does, he runs his finger briefly over my wrist. It passes over me like air, and makes me shiver like a kiss.

There is no word for the recipient of the love. There is only a word for the giver. There is the assumption that lovers come in pairs.