If you feel that someone is being unkind or unfair to you, you don’t want to be close to them. Then you aren’t close to them, so you grow further apart. More unkindness, more distance. It’s a vicious cycle, and breaking it requires deep
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“Because I am still learning to walk and talk, and it is a million times easier to be cynical and wield a sword, than it is to be open-hearted and stand there, holding a balloon and a birthday cake, with the infinite potential to look foolish.”
― How to Build a Girl
― How to Build a Girl
“You actually don’t exist while you’re in your bedroom,” I say to the dog, so that she knows this important fact. “Teenage girls in bedrooms aren’t real.”
― How to Build a Girl
― How to Build a Girl
“You feel like telling him that you’re not single in the way he thinks you’re single. After all, you have yourself.”
― I Was Told There'd Be Cake
― I Was Told There'd Be Cake
“And, like all the best quests, in the end, I did it all for a girl: me.”
― How to Build a Girl
― How to Build a Girl
“The phone is about the same size as a cigarette pack. It’s no surprise to me that the traditional cigarette lighter in many cars has turned into the space we use to recharge our phones. They are kin. The phone, like the cigarette, lets the texter/ former smoker drop out of any social interaction for a second to get a break and make a little love to the beautiful object. We need something, people. We can’t live propless.”
― The Color Master: Stories
― The Color Master: Stories
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