LoveDeadline

“The truth is, I pretend to be a cynic, but I am really a dreamer who is terrified of wanting something she may never get.”

Why do the young poets  all write about Persephone? 

“I don’t remember the end but I recall the beginning and it is softer that way- to let go of all the parting of hands, splitting of skin, the blood, the lingering. at the start, I could say we were starlight too bright to miss one another- it would be wrong. I was the sun. in this one I was the sun, I swear it, and you were clouds soft, but dark blocking out any and all light.”

“Male kindness is so alien to us we assume it is seduction every time.”

“I’m a little different now because of you.”

“You didn’t love her. You just didn’t want to be alone. Or maybe she was good for your ego. Or maybe she made you feel better about your miserable life. But you didn’t love her. Because you don’t destroy people you love.”

“Seeing [her] was like pressing a finger against something inside her, the scar of her missing heart.”