There is a strange power in a promise made long ago — the way it waits for you in a […]

There is an experience specific to invisibility — not the invisibility of absence but the invisibility of presence. Being in

Building walls so well that you almost believe in them yourself is a particular kind of achievement. The humor that

There is an intimacy in trusting someone with your safety — a specific, involuntary closeness that arrives not through choice

Loving someone who holds themselves responsible for you — who has placed themselves in the category of guardian, protector, the

Wanting someone your whole life has told you is wrong — and wanting them anyway — is a specific form

There is a particular kind of hope that people carry after they have decided they are finished with it —

Not every love story arrives in dramatic gestures. Some of them accumulate in the space between two people who were

There is a particular pleasure in watching a controlled man lose his composure — one degree at a time, almost

The strange intimacy of being trapped somewhere with someone — and realizing, quietly and then less quietly, that you are