Mackenzi Lee

And we are looking at each other, just looking, and I swear there are whole lifetimes lived in those small, shared seconds.

It is impossible to explain how you can love someone so much that it’s difficult to be around him.

“Everyone has a rough go. I’ve had it far easier than most people.”

“Maybe. But that doesn’t mean your feelings matter less.”

God bless the book people for their boundless knowledge absorbed from having words instead of friends.

“So Jesus and Lazarus are chums, right?

“Ladies haven’t the luxury of being squeamish about blood,”

Love may be a grand thing, but goddamn if it doesn’t take up more than its fair share of space inside a man.

equal parts comfortable silence and never lacking things to say to each other.

a strange thing, to want to die. Stranger still when you don’t feel you deserve to get away so easily.

though she also keeps sneaking up on my deaf side and scaring the shit out of me.