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I'm sorry," I say. "I didn't give you everything you wanted. I wasn't everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted.

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That's how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can't experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.

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Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?

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I don't ask what Alex sees in him because I'm afraid my disapproval will make her latch on to him even more. That's how it works. I'll have to pretend he doesn't bother me and that I don't want to drown him in the bay.

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Because feeling love does make you feel superior. Until you find out you aren't loved back.

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We're just kids growing up on an island, doing bad things in pretty places.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

The sun is shining, mynah birds are chattering, palm trees are swaying, so what. I'm in the hospital and I'm healthy. My heart is beating as it should. My brain is firing off messages that are loud and clear. My wife is on the upright hospital bed, positioned the way people sleep on airplanes, her body stiff, head cocked to the side. Her hands on her lap.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

Kaui Hart Hemmings

Kaui Hart Hemmings

Born: 1975 (age 51)

Bio: Kaui Hart Hemmings is an American writer who was born and raised in Hawaii. She attended Colorado College and graduated in 1998.

Known for:

The Descendants (2007)
How to Party With an Infant (2016)
The Possibilities (2014)
Juniors (2015)
House of Thieves (2005)

Kaui Hart Hemmings on Wikipedia

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