Kate Bailey

We laid next to each other for a while after that, limbs intertwined, the playlist still on repeat, the candles burning out. The sun was rising. My real life was dawning again. She was falling asleep, but my eyes were peeled open and staring at the ceiling.

I backed away into nothingness, and I built walls around myself that were masked with a smiling girl who took everything in stride.

Your sexual orientation is Alex Vause.

What they want in the future vs. what they expect right now, and what they really mean when they say, “well, I’m not sure…”

Naturally blonde? Naturally blonde eyelashes. That’s all.

3. You know you don’t really love them, but you’re holding on to the love they give.

Sarah Palin never said “You can see Russia from my house.”

Have our lives become more about what we show to people than how we actually live?

If it was the men we were trying to domesticate…

The most powerful thing you’ve seen in a while.

If you ate something today.

If you ask them why they love you, they give you reasons that are anything other than “I just do.”