The past is with me; the present is here. The future is unmapped and changeable. Ours for the imagining: spreading out before us. Sunlight filled, deep blue, and the darkness.
The stars are on the inside. They are effing beautiful.
If you don’t want a generation of robots, fund the arts!
Real is better, The truth is better. Painful but better.
Asking’s the easy bit. Then there’s everything that comes after.
I’ll never throw these small things away. There will never be a time when I don’t want them, all the tiny parts of Cal that made a life.
as if all the years haven’t dulled that moment. She’s staring at a spot of air in front of it, and I know, in that spot of air, is her son.
My dad was a magician too. Got in his car and disappeared.
She looked at me with those empty eyes, and I thought, I’m going to make sure I fill them up with something.
You’re not like other girls, you know that, right?’ Ed asks.‘I’ve been aware of the problem,’ I tell him.
It’s when I’m around some people that my entire vocabulary goes on vacation. Like now
Kept dreaming of this spot she had on her neck, this tiny country. I wanted to visit, to paint a picture of what I found there, a wall with a road map of her skin.
Do many guys ask you out twice?””Only the ones with balls.
I spent the weekend after our date wishing I could stab him with my fluffy-duck pen and staring at the phone hoping he’d call. Dating is a very tricky business.
Tonight’s going to be one of those things that seem to last forever.
I didn’t say you weren’t smart. I said you were stupid.”“I guess I’m too dumb to see the difference.
That’s what we think because we can’t imagine what it’s like to not exist.
Sometimes I wish I was a guy. Life’s so much easier for them.