i have never had anybody talk to me like this.
this is not a flirty sixth-grade phone call or bantering with friends or words passed in a note.
i feel that if my soul could talk it would
talk like this.

“What did it matter to me? Did I think that by making you rational about one thi…”

“You never told me what you saw in him, not convincingly.”

“The more kindness and justice are challenged, the more we must embrace them. On…”

“ taciturn, adj. There are days you come home silent. You say words, but you're…”