• You don’t pass or fail at being a person, dear.
• I should’ve photographed him before he changed. I should have frozen him the way he was. The way I loved him. The way he will never be again
• I keep remembering — I keep remembering. My heart has no pity on me.
• dearest, can you tell, I am trying to love you less
• I loved you. You tried to love me. This is how I will remember you
• Even in the months I didn’t have a single poem in me, I had this death and this love, and how’s that not enough?
• I will not be made to apologize

for the reasons I had to become hard

• She decides God is no good, but he must exist, / he must exist so she can hold him accountable