Natalie S. > Status Update

"Happiness could be felt as a pressure, too, Louis realized, more hard-edged and solid than longing, even. In Clarinda, he had yearned for better in a formless way, desire like a gray milk churn.... In contrast, this new happiness had angles; it had a jewel-cut shadow, and he could lose it."

I was just trying to remove a stain; I made a bigger stain.

These emotions are quite beside the point now, like an artifact looted from an ancient grave, an oddly shaped tool whose utilities no one can quite decipher.