“That’s how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can’t experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.”

person with a degree in a field: *says something accurate about said field* someone who has never even had a high school course in said field: wow you should really take a class in that field because you sound like an idiot. even I, someone who has never studied this in my life, know you’re wrong. person with a degree in a field: 

"Why did you use a whole package of wipes one one resident?"

As other girls prayed for handsomeness in a lover, or for wealth, or for power, or for poetry, she had prayed fervently: let him be kind.

When family members walk around the unit with bare feet.

When they let kids play on the floor

A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.

I crave touch, yet I flinch every time someone is close enough.