Sharlene N

“We'd never said the L-word before, and it hade a whiff of too late desperation about it, but I had to try. Was it true? I was pretty sure it was true, even though what I felt for him was so different from what I felt for Joe, it seemed like it should get a different name. What did this say about our culture, that we had invented only one word for all these feelings? If we truly valued it we would label it more precisely, like Eskimos and snow.”
― Holly Brickley, Deep Cuts