His hand lay across my stomach as he slept soundly. I entwined my fingers with his and breathed through the warmth that seeped through my chest. Such a simple, sweet thing to do, yet holding hands in bed was incredibly intimate.

He says in his defence he never meddled with married women, only with virgins.

I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt.

I believe that 'love' and 'wrong' are two deeply unrelated words that should never be thrown into the same sentence together. Like 'dessert' and 'broccoli.

There are countless reasons for reading, but when you__e young and uncertain of your identity, of who you may be, one of the most compelling is the quest to discover yourself reflected in the pages of a book.

We could call you an ambisexual. A duosexual. A____o I really have to find a word for it?_ Kyle interrupts. __an__ it just be what it is?___f course,_ I say, even though in the bigger world I__ not so sure. The world loves stupid labels. I wish we got to choose our own.We pause for a moment. I wonder if that__ all__f he just needed to say the truth and have it heard. But then Kyle looks at me with unsure eyes and says, __ou see, I don__ know who I__ supposed to be.___obody does,_ I assure him.