Inside five days, she became my left hand, and she loved it. It was a good thing she had no idea what I was doing with my left hand when she wasn’t around.

I’m gonna eat this while I try to make sense of you. I need a quiet moment with the muffin. Okay?

The world makes sense when you let me hold you, and I can only imagine holding you naked would bear similar, if not better, results.

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.” I.

I didn’t have the time to deal with man-children who owned a singular set of sheets and still called their hometown pediatrician for every sore throat.

I am going to marry you so hard you won’t remember your maiden name. I’m going to love you and protect you, and I’m going to put up with your brothers and the violent citrus-throwing, too. You better get used to it because I’m here to stay.

I love judging men,” Shannon mused. “Objectification is an essential element in taking down the patriarchy.

I loved her, fully and completely, and she brought out the best version of me.

If I could hold on to her, I’d be okay.

There are moments when I’m lost in my own life.