Honey Girl

“Anyway, yes. I have a crush. It’s terrible. Let’s move on.”

“Anyway, yes. I have a crush. It’s terrible. Let’s move on.”

let people tell me what I was feeling for a long time, and I avoided understanding it for myself. I didn’t want to know. I just wanted it to go away.”

She’s sick, the nurse said. Not just under the bandages, but in the places you can’t see.

Everything that is buried will be unburied. Everything that is pushed down will find its way out. It is the way of the universe.

i didn’t know when you said

you didn’t believe in monsters

you meant you didn’t believe in me too

“Don’t get your heart broken, Grace Porter, okay? I’ll put you back together, but I won’t be nice about it.”

It seems so absurd, but when you’ve known people so long, you know how to love them, and you know how to hurt them. You know all the soft spots where your claws dig in and press.

“Just send me a text message about it like a normal maladjusted person in this millennium.”

Am I that monster? In what ways am I the terrible, frightening thing?