Maybe language is kind, giving us these double meanings. Maybe it's trying to teach us a lesson, that we can always be two things at once.

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

This is the thing they don't tell you about being a third wheel - it's not like you're the wheel that's added on. You were one of the original two wheels, but suddenly you're not so important anymore. The relationship drives fine without you.

It is hard to stop seeing your son as a son and to start seeing him as a human being. It is hard to stop seeing your parents as parents and to start seeing them as human beings. It's a two-sided transition, and very few people manage it gracefully.

I am jealous of anyone who can make other people care so much.

I couldn't fault her for believing, because I had to imagine i was nice to have that illusion still intact.

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