just desserts...you'll like this

he could stand pain, himself. he just couldn't stand hers. [pp-458]


when you loved someone, you put their needs before your own.
no matter how inconceivable those needs were; no matter how fucked up; no matter how much it made you feel like you were ripping yourself into pieces. [pp-403]


'do you know what it's like to give your whole self to a person, and your whole heart to boot, until you've got nothing left to give - and then realize that it still isn't what they need?' [pp-335]


'listen to my voice and i shall be your God, and you shall be my people' Jeremiah 7:23


'a new heart also i will give you, and a new spirit will i put within you' Ezekiel 36:26


'...one day i kind of looked at her, and i didn't just see Em, i saw this really beautiful girl. and, well...you know'

'were you intimate?'

'do i have to tell you if i don't want to?'

'you don't have to tell me anything at all'

'well, i don't want to'

'but you loved her'

'yes'

'and she was your first girlfriend'

'well, pretty much, yeah'

'so, how do you know? how do you know that is was love?'

'there was an attraction, but it was more than that. once, we broke up for a while. i started hanging around with this other girl who i'd always thought was really hot. anyway, we started going out places and fooling around a little and every time i was with her i realized i didn't know her too well. i'd hyped her up in my head to be so much more than what she really was. when Em and i got back together, i could see that she had never been less than what i'd figured her to be. if anything, she was always better than i remembered. and that's what i think love is, when your hindsight's twenty-twenty, and you still wouldn't change a thing.' [pp-129]


if there was a smile, it was just hiding something you can't see....
and if you didn't see a smile, that was just because i couldn't.



here's to recent developments, past expositions, the one and Emily

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