#conversationswithfriends

Partly because in your orange shirt you look like a better happier St. Sebastian

partly because of my love for you,

partly because of your love for yoghurt

partly because of the fluorescent orange tulips around the birches

partly because of the secrecy our smiles

take on before people and statuary.

—Frank O'Hara, Having A Coke With You.

I can’t remember if I thought about this at the beginning. How it was doomed to end unhappily.

He nodded looking at me. I did, he said. I just thought it would be worth it.

— Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends.