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Sonya Sones

The Opposite of Innocent

  • Mafer Orozcohas quoted4 years ago
    He’s looking into my eyes,

    but he’s not seeing me—

    all he’s seeing

    is his own reflection.

    That’s the only thing

    he cares about—

    himself
  • Mafer Orozcohas quoted4 years ago
    She loved him. She lived for him. He left her.

    She lived on. But she was dead
  • Mafer Orozcohas quoted4 years ago
    The eyes aren’t just the windows to the soul.

    The eyes are the soul.”
  • Mafer Orozcohas quoted4 years ago
    I mean, he’s saying he loves me.

    But does he love me?

    Or what I’m doing to him
  • Mafer Orozcohas quoted4 years ago
    Show me a man’s hands

    and I’ll show you his passions.”
  • Mafer Orozcohas quoted4 years ago
    Funny word—“if.”

    So tiny, but so enormous
  • Mafer Orozcohas quoted4 years ago
    And I promised someone I wouldn’t.

    The End (and also The Beginning)
  • Mafer Orozcohas quoted4 years ago
    This summer, I felt like a wish that had finally

    been fulfilled. I felt like a dream that had

    finally been remembered. But I can’t tell you

    why, because you told us not to “tell.”

    And I can’t “show” you why either, because

    that would be telling. The other kind of telling
  • Mafer Orozcohas quoted4 years ago
    there’s whole worlds more to it.

    Whole galaxies
  • Mafer Orozcohas quoted4 years ago
    we’re these two

    ridiculously happy people

    sharing one madly beating heart
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