perfectly incomplete

“Talking about someone who makes you happy actually makes you happy.”

“Don’t hurt someone who cares about you like that. You’re not the only person in the world who’s ever been hurt. Don’t be cruel. Don’t go breaking someone else’s heart in the hope that you’ll feel better. Because you won’t.”

do you think there is anywhere, in any language, / a word billowing enough / for the pleasure

“As far as words go, ‘crying’ is louder and ‘weeping’ is wetter. When people explain the difference between the two to English-language learners they say that weeping is more formal, can sound archaic in everyday speech. You can hear this in their past tenses—the plainness of ‘cried’, the velvet cloak of ‘wept’. I remember arguing once with a teacher who insisted ‘dreamt’ was incorrect, dreamed the only proper option. She was wrong, of course, in both philological and moral ways, and ever since I’ve felt a peculiar attachment to the t’s of the past: weep, wept, sleep, slept, leave, left. There’s a finality there, a quiet completion, of which ’d’ has never dreamt.”