I'm beginning to think that if I can't stop loving him after nearly nine years of us not working... I'm just never going to.

Each time I approach a break-up, I think it is going to get harder; it doesn't. This time it was easy ( Read more... )

On the telephone, my mum asks me through a yawn what I've been doing with myself on this side of the world. "I am working through my classes. More slowly than I would like, especially since I've taken so much time off in the past, and I will get my second degree, and I will become the teacher and eventually the professor that I've always known I ( Read more... )

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz ( Read more... )

If I am such a catch, why is it that I am not falling into anyone's open arms?

I hate myself for doing this to you.
To us.
I promise I'm going to figure out a way to fix it.
I pray that it's enough for you to find your way back to me.

Life would be so much more interesting if I didn't have any morals.

"Hey there," said the first gentleman.
"Hey, what can I do for you?"
"Oh, I could think of a lot of things," chimed in the other.
"I'm sorry, what would you like to drink?"
"What's your name, sweetheart?" The annoying one asked.
"Julie, sweetheart"I like this one, Parker ( Read more... )

"My life is very monotonous. I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And in consequence, I am a little bored. But if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back ( Read more... )

There is nothing less appealing (or more apalling) than NYC in the summer heat. I am so glad that when my brother visits it will have long since passed ( Read more... )