Katie Ray

The sweet talkers rely on their caramelized compliments to persuade you, to manipulate you. You crave their words and approval; the more you have, the more desperate you become for more, more, more, until they rot you from the inside out.

You pulled my strings and made me dance because you were afraid to let yourself lose control.

“True love is like bacon, except you can’t taste it.”

Teenagers connect famous love poems and stories to their own lives because they feel things that grandly. They do not belittle their emotions.

I knew when you left and my shoulders relaxed; I could breathe again. When the once cursed miles apart became much-welcomed space.

You click through the limited privacy allowed Facebook profile pictures, refrain from looking at LinkedIn because, dang it, it’ll tell them if you looked, and you read any other little tidbits that Google decides to offer up. Usually it’s funny quotes from a college newspaper or random websites they’re linked to.