Enlightenment is scary. Sometimes things look better in the dark.

If goodness can't come from bad things, it makes bad things unbearable.

But I want to feel like life matters. I had something real with you, but then the realness scared me. I decided to go for other things instead.

I think of friendship in terms of love.

Pride is allowed to have an element of worry, especially when you are a mother.

It's the way you say thank you like you're genuinely thankful. I have never met anyone else who does that on a regular basis.

"I want you to spend the night," you said. And it was definitely your phrasing that ensured it. If you had said, "Let's have sex," or "Let's go to my place," or even "I really want you," I'm not sure we would have gone quite as far as we did. But I loved the notion that the night was mine to spend, and I immediately decided to spend it with you.