i need a father, i need a mother, i need some older, wiser being to cry to. i talk to god but the sky is empty.

if alex’s head is a storm, henry is the place lightning hits ground.

i never wanted to hide my body from him. if i could have, i am sure i would have given it all away with the rest of me. i did not know it was possible to keep some things for myself.

sometimes he’s okay with that. sometimes, he can’t look himself in the eye.

weren’t you gonna love me if i just did everything right?

last night i had a dream that felt like a memory. a glimpse of what could've been. crossed signals from another life. where instead of all this, i had you. and life was exquisitely simple. and we were desperately happy.

when someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. you just know that your name is safe in their mouth

do you feel held by him? does he feel like home to you?

she reached out her hand. marcus let his fingers graze hers. they twirled them. twists of brown sugar and chocolate ganache.

You wrote of being in a village upthread together, living as friends and neighbours do, and I could have swallowed this valley whole and still not have sated my hunger for the thought.

if you are intolerable, let me be the one to tolerate you

he reaches out to touch his face and looks at his fingers and thinks about holding the bible with the same hand.

but i, being poor, have only my dreams; i have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

i’ve never been in love i almost had it one time but then you left me for jesus christ

the lover strips the beloved of their identity no less than blood-stained priest his human or animal victim.

The only thing bigger than Kit’s capacity for wonder is how it feels to be at the center of it.

bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored is a metaphysical dilemma i havent conquered yet

perfect acceptance of an imperfect person

he invents the monsters underneath the bed to get you to sleep next to him.

so many times i have died alone in my room