Bee

“Alternatives to “Bae” The one who wins all of the arguments, the keeper of the remote, the girl who turns my stomach into a butterfly nest, the pink Starburst, the one I will always choose first no matter what else is in the pack, the red Kool-Aid, the right amount of sugar, the pulp, the part that makes the juice seem real.”
― Rudy Francisco, Helium

“I’m just sorry that she had to be your fortune cookie. Broken so you could learn a lesson you already should’ve known.”
― Rudy Francisco, Helium

“Youth promises us immortality, but doesn't have the means to uphold its end of the bargain.”
― Rudy Francisco, Helium

“When I’m down I don’t kill myself because then the sadness would be over, and the sadness is my old paint under the new. The sadness is the house fire or the broken shoulder: I’d still be me without it but I’d be so boring.”
― Neil Hilborn, The Future