placid, adj. Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still.

Family, like arsenic, works best in small doses...unless you prefer to die.

His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should.

And still, for all the jealously, all the doubt, sometimes I will be struck with a kind of awe that we're together. That someone like me could find someone like you --- it renders me wordless. Because surely words would conspire against such luck, would protest the unlikelihood of such a turn of events.

If other people see you differently, you’ll end up seeing them differently, too.

You don't know, but I'm noticing.

Neophyte, n. There are millions upon millions of people who have been through this before-- why is it that no one can give my good advice?