Something Blue

Later, I understood her point: that hard work, honesty, and integrity always paid off in the end, while skating by on your looks was somehow an offense.

In other words, I understood at the tender age of three that with beauty come perks and power.

they’d rather be alone if they couldn’t be in the right relationship.

That is one of the problems with getting older.

I had learned to let those surface issues go, to value content over form.

generosity I had taken for granted in my selfish past.

I had never understood what people meant when they said they’d rather be alone if they couldn’t be in the right relationship. Now I got it. I wanted Ethan or no one.

Later, I understood her point: that hard work, honesty, and integrity always paid off in the end,