She had reason to doubt him; he was real good at planning but real bad at doing.

Books are wonderful, but they aren't that powerful.

Love is the great test of the human. The human is tested by our ability to withstand love. Love is so difficult, it is so challenging, it demands of us that we wreck it with ourselves. It demands of us an honesty that few of us could sustain.

She's applying her lipstick; I've always believed that the universe invented the color red solely for Latinas.

but back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.

But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.

You eventually erase her contact info from your phone but not the pictures you took of her in bed while she was naked and asleep, never those.