I want to make the world into something better so that he can be okay.

The months fall to shards at my feet.

There are so many of us, so many girls. The world wants us for our wombs or our bodies, or it doesn't want us at all.

It's best to let her go," he says. No, no, that's wrong. It's never right to give up on someone.

Did you tell freedom hello for me?

Cure" is one of the most precious words in the English language. It's a short word. A clean and simple word. But it isn't so easy a thing as it sounds. There are questions like: How will this affect us in ten years? In twenty? What will it do to our children? Our children's children?

‎I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.