Something may have been lost in translation, but it certainly wasn't love

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.

Her handwriting was curious — small sharp little letters with no capitals (who did she think she was, e. e. cummings?).

And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried.

Jenny, if you're so con­vinced I'm a loser, why did you bull­doze me into buy­ing you cof­fee?' She looked me straight in the eye and smiled. 'I like your body,' she said.

The explanations for the things we do in life are many and complex. Supposedly mature adults should live by logic, listen to their reason. Think things out before they act. But maybe they never heard what Dr. London told me one, Freud said that for the little things in life we should react according to our reason. But for really big decisions, we should heed what our unconscious tells us.

The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.