Cute" is one of those words people use when they know you're smart enough to realize "you've got so much personality" means "you're ugly.

Cute" is one of those words people use when they know you're smart enough to realize "you've got so much personality" means "you're ugly.

Talking about someone who makes you happy actually makes you happy. Being happy makes you want to talk, to go over everything, to share it so you can remember it all over again.

I wish it had never happened because then I wouldn't think about it as I'm falling asleep.

I do not fall. I fell so hard so long ago there is nothing left for me to land on. I just keep falling and falling and falling.

I’m broken, I have cut myself wide open. I can see my heart and it is not what I believed it was, it is not good and kind and all the things I have always thought I am.

And now I see what has been there all along, what I've noticed but never truly understood until now. Eli is as uncertain as I am, as we all are. Life has surprised him like it has me. Has hurt him like it has me.