Ari Eastman

Women can do whatever they want. They can be whoever they want. Women are rejecting being placed in such a rigid box. They are climbing up the corporate ladder. They are turning passion projects into career paths.

good God your mouth
and all the things it says

You treat your body poorly.

Jim would have left Scranton for a cooler city way earlier. Pam would have married someone like Roy.

I like imagining you, a little drunk, giving me a hard time about something. 

She smokes cigarettes. But only when she drinks, she says.

It’s easy to be wise in theory. A lot harder in practice.

You wake up and you go to sleep and everything in between resembles the day before. It’s not boring, exactly. But it’s safe.

I guarantee there’s nothing you need to tell me that can’t be expressed over a text or email. 

There are things inside me I am dying to scream. But instead, I’m whispering.

It’s about dragons and incest, right? Also, Ed Sheeran is in it.

It feels like people have a sixth sense for this kind of thing. Like all our exes, our former flames, the loves we were so desperate for to come back are all in a secret club that we have no knowledge of.