"If she loves you, if she really loves you, you'll know it. if you can wake up to her staring at you and its not even mildly creepy, if you catch her smelling the shoulder of a hooded sweatshirt you lent her for an autumn walk at the beach, and not for B.O., if she makes you a pancake in the shape of a shark, if she calls you drunkenly at four in the morning "to talk", if she laughs at your jokes when they're funny and makes fun of you when they're not, if she keeps her fridge stocked with guineas tallboys for when you come over, if she tells you she wishes she were closer to her sister and that her dad makes her sad: She loves you, of course she loves you."
- Pasha Malla















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In an effort to get people to look into eachother's eyes more, the government has decided to allot each person exactly one hundred and sixty-seven words per day. When the phone rings, he puts it up to his ear without saying hello. In the restaurant he points at chicken noodle soup. He's adjusting well to the new way. Late at night, he calls his long distance lover and proudly says: "I only used Fifty-Nine words today, and I saved the rest for you. "When she doesn't respond , he knows she's used up all her words, so he slowly whispers "I love you" thirty-two and a third times . After that, they just sit on the line and listen to each other breathe





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