"You let me set the water in the shower, and followed me into the booth to stand there with me under the warm spray. You kept your head down, not looking me in the eyes—though if you were shy, I couldn..."
- Julio Alexi Genao
"what it is is the memory of a dance a song you heard long ago to hear it is to be young again and for once for once you are happy"
"They’d come for you, and this time they’d come with we"
"don’t tell me not to drink. not to smoke. not to grieve. if i speak of these things it’s because i have to— but i am not speaking to you."
"But it turns out Joy is a house built from the same bricks as Sorrow. Pleasure is a poem, and it uses the same words as Pain."
"people say life is "
"The second day, I watched you suffer through one of your nightmares, but this one was worse than I’d seen before. You called out another man’s name."
"That’s why I was calm. When you woke me in the middle of the night with your hand around my throat, and I thought I was going to die for bringing you home—that I had given my life to lie down next to ..."
"My skin hungered for you. You were warm, and alive, and in my bed, and I wanted you so bad I could feel the ripple of need on the pads of my fingertips, on the palms of my hands, on the skin of my bac..."
"I watched you roll off me and step away from the bed in silence, but when the heat of your body was gone, I wanted it back."