A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of other fruits.

Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have it.

She might, in fact, go crazy, as has happened to a lot of people who break rules. Not the people who play at rebellion but really only solidify their already dominant positions in society...but those who take some larger action that disrupts the social order. Who try to push through the doors that are usually closed to them. They do sometimes go crazy, these people, because the world is telling them not to want the things they want. It can seem saner to give up--but then one goes insane from giving up.

My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.

Do not think about guys who have broken your heart six ways. It is mentally deranged to chase after heartbreak.

...our family is white as far back on the family tree as I've ever looked, and I guess I picture people white white white unless someone tells me otherwise

Sex Ed - when I finally got to take it - was all about biology and birth control and nothing about anything that actually goes on between people.