thea’s Reviews > Thirst for Salt > Status Update

You always think you can fix everyone. Why can’t you just love me? Isn’t that enough?
When you’re like this, he said, you make yourself real hard to love. >

I just |

I didn’t know how to love like that, in bold gestures. My expressions were small: a folded love note buried in a jacket pocket, a drafted email addressed and sent to no one. Could a quiet love like mine be just as true?

The way my heart ripped itself open

I was looking out at the horizon. At a certain time down south, sea and sky seem to merge, to kiss. Mirroring each other, like lovers do. Above and below, one expanse of silver blue. I’d never known that kind of love—where all boundaries disappeared.

OH I’M GONNA BE SICK I’M NOT EVEN A HUNDRED PAGES IN??? REAL WRITING IS SO BACK