He has no idea how beautiful the ordinary becomes once it disappears.

This is my life, I think. I am an accumulation of objects.

arrears, n. My faithfulness was as unthinking as your lapse. Of all the things I though would go wrong, I never thought it would be that. "It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

It's not the easy things that let you get to know a person.

I find faith in human perseverance, even as the universe throws challenge after challenge our way.

I had a sense then of how if we truly understood how many of the unimportant things we do will end up outliving us, we'd never be able to go on.

elliptical, adj. The kiss I like the most is one of the slow ones. It’s as much breath as touch, as much no as yes. You lean in from the side, and I have to turn a little to make it happen.