Quotes added on Sunday, June 14 2015

What I know of survival is this: how to adjust my body around the cool spots in bed, the way my hair is never exactly right when I leave the house for a hopeful second date, the imprint of my bra on my skin after coming home and letting my dress pool at my feet. Sleeping, alone. Missing you and missing you. I eat olives and arugula standing up in the kitchen, wearing nothing except underwear and pearls. I do not recognize myself. Being sad only makes me thirsty. I drink two glasses of water, take an aspirin, dance with myself slowly in the living room. Everything comes back to me in moments– flashes of your skin, the freckles on your chest, your perfect wrists, a kneecap, the small of your back. I peel away the sadness to get down to the pit of the thing and can never quite manage to finish it. My hands smell like oranges, clove cigarettes. Pounds of sadness. I get out of bed. I run the bath. Chocolate shavings and blueberries for lunch. Little things, but I am handling it. Yesterday, I almost called you to tell you that I love you, but then I remembered I’m not allowed to say it anymore, and it is awful. You are with me even when I brush my teeth.

— Kristina Haynes, Love So Good That I Forgot to Say Ouch