But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President.

But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President.

All the same, my depression and self-hatred, my desire to mutilate myself with broken bottles, my numbness and crying fits, my inability to get out of bed for days and days, the feeling of the world moving in to crush me, went on and on. But I knew I wouldn't go mad, even if that release, that letting-go, was a freedom I desired. I was waiting for myself to heal.

Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

Like you, she will have been with other people, but I've got a feeling there's something between you.

...I love 'yes.' It's practically the most interesting word of all, don't you think?" Like a hinge opening a door outward. Yes, yes, yes.