Vous Sauver

But love for me has never been about butterflies. Think hurricanes. Think entire oceans drowning veins, earthquakes, grand and ruinous, peeling back ribs from sternums and snapping them like floorboards.

We try so hard to hide everything we’re really feeling from those who probably need to know our true feelings the most.

I tell you, the more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

I was so in love with you that I ignored how horribly you treated me.

Suddenly you’re 21 and you’re screaming along in the car to all the songs you listened to when you were sad in middle school and everything is different but everything is good.

I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.

I think,“ she said slowly, “you can drive a person crazy by simply refusing to look at them. “There isn’t anything quite like being ignored by someone you have feelings for.”

and the sea keeps rocking in and she wants to talk to God.

For almost 18 years you’re taught to sit down, shut up, and raise your hand. Then you have to decide what you’re going to do for the rest of your life.