1. Bring to me, it said, continual proof / you've been alive.
2. ConnubialBecause with alarming accuracy she’d been identifying patterns I was unaware of—this tic, that tendency, like the way I've mastered the language of intimacy in order to conceal how I felt— I knew I was in danger of being terribly understood.
3. I will try to disappoint youbetter than anyone else has.
Different Hours
4. I'll say I love you,Which will lead, of course,to disappointment,but those words unsaidpoison every next moment.I will try to disappoint youbetter than anyone else has.
Different Hours
5. I've triedto become someone else for a while,only to discover that he, too, was me.
6. I’ll always deny that I kissed her.I was just whispering into her mouth.
Loosestrife
