They like their coffee like they like their ex-boyfriends: bitter.
But you want to see shapes; you want to see stories, so you pick them out of the sky.
I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring.
So keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe.
Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me out of my sentimentality. For me at least, fiction is the only way I can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.
You can't just make me different, and the leave. Because I was fine before.