love

“Falling in love is like entering a room you didn’t know existed in your own house. You think you know the layout—you’ve lived here a long time, you’ve opened every drawer, rearranged every piece of furniture in your head—and then someone says, ‘What about this door?’ And they open it. And suddenly there’s light you’ve never seen before. A corner... See more

“My dream meet-cute is to fall in love via a long and thoughtful email reply to my newsletter.”

That it’s intended to keep something out as much as it is keeping something in.

It’s not brave, because I couldn’t stop if I wanted to. It’s all I know how to do. I’ll go on making things and cooking and offering them and wanting to be close to people because I could no more stop than I could stop eating. I have never not been hungry.

After a while, growing near each other, trees don’t know which roots are theirs.

the current state of everyone I love still being here.

“You have to pick the places you don’t walk away from.”

I fall in love when I want them to fill all my pauses.