“'Well, that's the thing,' she said, ‘your first love isn’t the first person you give your…”

“What was it like to love him? Asked Gratitude. It was like being exhumed, I answered, and…”

“I don’t know how you are so familiar to me—or why it feels less like I am getting to know…”

“It was a question I had worn on my lips for days—like a loose thread on my favorite…”