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We are not born haters.

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“I’m married. I have a daughter. I still think about you.”

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Loneliness will show you how to pay attention to your own voice, to trust yourself.

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Breakups are bad enough. Getting broken up with — that’s another monster entirely.

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I’m sober as I can be and I just wanted to say you are no Hercules, because at least he grieved killing those he loved, whereas you didn’t even feel sorry for shattering every part of me that you claimed to love.

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This heartache is not the kind you see in the movies or hear about in the bitter or weepy songs. It’s so much more haunting because it’s not the kind where you’re angry or hysterically sad. It’s a numbness that you feel all too much.

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Those guilty of giving you the ever-cliché butterflies-in-stomach-you’re-gonna-puke-in-his-yard feeling can circumstantially be considered.

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You make your women strong and able. We’re tough old bats, full of aged wisdom and purpose.

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11. I should have broken up with you the first time you implied that you loved Taylor Swift more than I do.