Those Genes Could Have Been Mine

Why do you have to be so annoying sometimes?" "Cant help it. It's the company I keep.

How do you eat your roots?

There’s a ghost of a dream that you don’t even try to shake free off because you’re too in love with the way she haunts you.

Don't you know how much I hero-worshiped you when I was a kid? You were Marie Curie crossed with Emily Bronte crossed with Joan of Arc to me when I was ten. And when i told you that, you said my cultural references were the sign of a colonized mind.

How horrifying that morning when you wake up and your first thought is not of the person who has left. That’s when you know, I will never die of a broken heart.

I still hear the world spinning.