We all contain mysteries, especially when seen from the inside.

I'm not in love with you.

I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away. They spare themselves the confrontation, but end up boiling in resentment anyway.

The older you get, the wiser you are - this is true. But you also question what use this wisdom is.y

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

iv. who was it who invented size zero? who was it who promised that if you got to a certain point you would no longer be?

If you tell me, I will leave you alone," I said. "And if you don't tell me, I am going to grab the nearest ghostwritten James Patterson romance novel and I am going to follow you through this store reading it out loud until you relent. Would you prefer me to read from Daphne's Three Tender Months with Harold or Cindy and John's House of Everlasting Love? I guarantee, your sanity and your indie street cred won't last a chapter. And they are very, very short chapters." Now I could see the fright beneath the defiance.