Jessica Winters

“It’s an empty hole in my body that feels bottomless some days, and will never be filled.”

“When I got home I took a shower, got in bed, and wished it never happened.”

“He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.” —Benjamin Franklin

“The problem is that I am now totally in love with her.”

“I hate that I wasn’t the first guy to kiss you.”

“I’m now—much to my husband’s frustrations—earning more money than him. There is hope out there!”

“Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
—Marilyn Monroe

“I am eroding his self-confidence.”

“I gave up a cat that I loved for a girl that I’m not even sure is allergic to cats.”

“My friends and parents all think he took me to the street corner where we met and got down on one knee and begged me to marry him. In reality, I told him that I was pregnant and that the kid would have my last name.”

“I chose to stay to honor the family that we created together. I chose to stay because I can’t imagine my life without him.”

“Calm down.”

“Loneliness is eating me alive from the inside-out.”

1. College football star mourns the death of a girlfriend who never existed.

“I felt like a little kid standing outside a glass storeroom window staring at a Christmas present I wanted desperately but would never get or even touch.”

What are we fighting about again? Do we even know?

8.
The way we both love the smell of wet sidewalk cement after a summertime thunderstorm.