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You know I want to be a directos, but you could never truly see the movies in my head and that, Ed, is why we broke up.

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He thought she knew what he meant, but the biggest mistake you can make is thinking they know what you mean.

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All over the world are particular people, and you could be happy with probably five or six of them, eight if you're bisexual and everyone is.

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This is how it is in life and love. In life and love we are with people for a while, and then we join other people, people we have not met, and we wal...more

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No, when you love someone you spend hours and hours with them, and even the mightiest forces in the netherworld could not say whether the hours you sp...more

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I'd ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you. And I did. But that right there was why it was doomed.

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I'm nothing, not a single thing. The only particle I had, the only tiny thing raising me up, is that I was Ed Slaterton's girlfriend, loved by you for...more

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I'm writing it in a letter, the whole truth of why it happened. And the truth is that I goddamn loved you so much.

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I'm a lunatic wandering around for scraps, I'm like every single miserable moron I've scorned, and pretended I didn't recognize. I'm all of them, ever...more

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There were a million things, everything, I didn't know. I was stupid, the official descriptive phrase for happy. I took this thing I'm giving you back...more

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I'm dumping the whole box back into your life Ed, every item of you and me. I'm dumping this box on your porch, Ed, but it's you, Ed, who is getting d...more

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Call me later, you’d said, so I could call you later, at night, and it is those nights I miss you, Ed, the most, on the phone, you beautiful bastard.

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Another gift, another secret, another time to lean in and kiss me.

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Here we are at the bottom, almost empty. It's like confetti, these dried remnants you find in the street for a party no one invited you to. But they u...more

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The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.