“You are a souvenir shop, where he goes to remember how much people miss him when he is gone.”

“You wonder why I don’t answer your 3 a.m. phone calls. When you say “I miss you”, I begin to undress myself out of habit.”

“Your body is the house you grew up in. How dare you try to burn it to the ground.”

“Your body is not a temple.Your body is the house you grew up in.How dare you try to burn it to the ground.You are bigger than this.You are biggerthan this.”

“My body is a dead language and you pronounce each word perfectly.”

“I loved you head over handleslike my first bicycle accident —before the mouthful of gravel and blood,I swore we were flying.”

“Writing a list of ways I could be betterand writing a suicide noteare the same thing”