The girls said she was too cynical about love, but how could you not be On the surface, relations between men and women were all soft kisses

The girls said she was too cynical about love, but how could you not be On the surface, relations between men and women were all soft kisses and white gowns and hand-holding. But underneath they were a scary, complicated, ugly mess, just waiting to rise to the surface.

–
J. Courtney Sullivan,

Commencement

When she was a child, my love carried a road map in her hand the way other girls carried handkerchiefs. – Roman Payne,

When she was a child,
my love carried a road map in her hand
the way other girls carried handkerchiefs.

–
Roman Payne,

The Wanderess