Status Updates From Swanna in Love

‘that was the worse thing about being a kid, being forced to be comforted by the person who was hurting you in the first place’

‘when I really liked someone, it took me a while to fully see them sometimes. It was almost like I was seeing them in slow motion, like a flip-book, and then they suddenly come together, like when they showed a flower blooming on a science show with time-lapse photography.’

‘“My children are not like other children,” my mother said. My brother and I stood on the square piece of stone outside the door trying to not look like other children.’