It's Easier To Move On When You've Been Hurt Than It Is To Look At Yourself In The Mirror When You've

I don't mean to be creepy, but there's this giggle that people let out when they laugh with someone who truly means something to them. It's all teeth and abdominal muscles. Even the most annoying people are so honest and human and...untouchable; like nothing you do or say in that moment can affect them. I like it. I want it.

What's all this food-related guilt about?

I don't know what to tell you kid, put your barefeet on the cold grass and let the sun touch your cheek bones and eyelids. You'll live. You'll live.

I hate that he says hi after 2 years, and I'm right back to daydreaming about laughter in a sunlit kitchen. I hate that so much.

Ijeoma Umebinyuo, from Questions for Ada; “Pain”

For years I've been meaning to read A Thousand Splendid Suns. It broke my heart man. This little girl was just born to suffer. That's all she did. She suffered, and then she died.

And, you read quotes and snippets of a book and you think "ow this seems happy-ending-y I'll save it for strange strips of my life." And, then it wrecks you, freaking vivisection the whole thing.

A winner knows when to stop

On the screen near Debonairs in Montecasino, Johannesburg

When you grow old, your heart dies.

The Breakfast Club

When you know better you do better

Maya Angelou

Last year I wrote wants rather than resolutions. I liked the piece so this time I sat and wrote whatever came to mind, until I wrote 'end', which felt like a natural place to, well,