“We pass each other notes in the hollows of our collarbones.”

“We will know each other by the way our watches slip from our wrists, the bruises on our knees, our winged shoulder blades tenting silk dresses.”

“We git six across the backseat and shiver together, arms and legs wrapped like eels around each other.”

“We will not stick our heads in ovens. We will not throw ourselves from bridges, nor weight our pockets, nor disturb our veins.”

“We love our secrets; anything hidden is so dear to us, we who are always on display”

“Underwater, we are transparent”

“I wanted to tell him I loved him and I couldn't remember how we met. He had things he wanted to tell me too; I knew by the way his breath hung in the air before us. There were so many things inside us, and it comforted me to think of them there, curled up, content, for the time being, to be hidden”