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“He will live on for decades—eating, talking, laughing, fucking—while she will cease to exist in just a few weeks.”
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“Every sentence that I’ve tried to put here to frame the moment feels like a doormat laid on blood, an unstoppable force colliding with an intolerable object in slow motion, beyond the need of being named.”
“As a girl, that’s how you made it / to first base. You didn’t kiss, / you were kissed.”
“The idea of writing saving you as you’re going through something I don't believe in at all.”
“After talking about his vegetables, we inevitably talk about the past.”