"I feel like ‘you killed her in waves’ is what we do in relationships — or the ones that don’t work. It’s a gradual process of killing it. It takes a long time. It’s not all at once, usually. But then when it’s gone, it’s gone. But there’s all these things; you look around, and it’s stray pieces of hair in your apartment. It’s a restaurant you can’t go to anymore. It’s a bed you no longer feel comfortable sleeping in, or a movie you don’t feel as comfortable laughing at — all these intangibles, all this life, this air."

howitzerliterarysociety:

You figure 7 billion like it’s a real number
You figure 300 million like it’s real
Then 39. 39 million and that’s California
Then 300,000 and that’s Stockton
A junior in California
a little kid with big boy britches
can fuck shit up but never taken seriously
You passed, what, a couple…