Elisa

“You're asking me to trust a version of you I don't know.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“I love you.'' I need to say it to her. I don't say it a lot. I should've said it more.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“It still makes me vaguely sad, in that faded way, like a scar you press too hard on and the damaged tissue remembers the wound fresh, but just for a second, and then it's gone.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“She reaches out, her fingers closing over my wrist long enough to squeeze. It's not an *I'll be okay* touch, because she's just spoken the words that say it's not. It's an *I'm here* touch, and it's enough. It has to be. Because it's all we have.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been