no matter how happy we are, no matter how much we want our night to stretch out infinitely, sleep is inevitable.

I have taken advantage of other people's weaknesses in order to cover my own.

incessant adj. The doubts. You had to save me from my constant doubts. That deep-seeded feeling that I wasn't good enough for anything I was a fake at my job I wasn't your equal my friends would forget me if I moved away for a month. It wasn't as easy as hearing voices nobody was telling me this. It was just something I knew. Everyone else was playing along but I was sure that one day they would all stop.

I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else.

The tenderness between two people can turn the air tender, the room tender, time itself tender. As I step out of bed and slip on an oversize shirt, everything around me feels like it's the temperature of happiness.

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?

Then I go in the den and turn on Law & Order, since the only thing i can really count on in life is that whenever I turn on the TV, there will be a Law & Order episode.