Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.

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.

[Donald] Trump is what happens in America every time it feels economically and politically threatened, and it encounters the limitations of its own white supremacists practices.

You said i could call you when i wanted but that you wouldn’t call me. you have to decide where and when, you said. if you leave it up to me i’ll want to see you every day. At least you were honest, which is more than i can say for me.

And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.

I think a lot of the most interesting immigrant writing involves stepping outside of that old, dreary binary. Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker is a great example. Same goes for Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior.

She's sensitive, too. Takes to hurt the way water takes to paper.