Books are seldom useful unless they are also beautiful.

I don't think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.

Incidentally, did you know that the whole eight glasses a day thing is complete bullshit and has no scientific basis? So many things are like that. Everyone just assumes they're true, because people are basically lazy and incurious, which incidentally is one of those words that sounds like it wouldn't be a word but is.

In English, we don't have a word for people who aren't virgins. What the non-virgin lexical gap really made me think was that our obsession with sexual purity is such that once you are no longer this THING, you are indescribable.

That's how writing works, at least for me: even the stuff that doesn't work out gets funneled into the stuff that does work out.

Dumpers may not always be the heartbreakers, and the Dumpees may not always be the heartbroken. But everyone has a tendency.

I think forever is an incorrect concept.