well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

“If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might tu…”

“oh shit, i think. my cheeks are on fire; my heart starts to pound.”

“My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine …”

“Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.”