Charlotte. There's a girl on the roof. She says her name…

“I tended to spend too much time with my favorite things, loved them too hard until I wore them down. After a while, they…

— Brittany Cavallaro

“Maybe this is what happened when you built a friendship on a foundation of mutual disaster. It collapsed the second things righted themselves, left…

— Brittany Cavallaro

“It’s strange to grieve for your former self, and still I think it’s something that any girl understands. I’ve shed so many skins, I…

— Brittany Cavallaro

“So what if somewhere, back a hundred years and change and across the Atlantic Ocean, some other Watson made best friends with some other…

— Brittany Cavallaro

“But I had never wanted to be her boyfriend. I wanted something smaller than that, and far, far bigger.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

“I’ve always liked that Galway Kinnell poem. ‘Wait, for now. Distrust everything, if you have to. But trust the hours. Haven’t they carried you…

— Brittany Cavallaro

“Without each other, we could, quite literally, die.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

“The prompt didn’t help me much, since all poems were difficult for me to write. They were like mirrors you held up to a…

— Brittany Cavallaro

“change or shower since interrogating Holmes last night.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

“She smiled at me, that one particular smile I hardly ever saw, the one that could open padlocks, Yale locks, bank vaults, the one…

— Brittany Cavallaro

“Number fifteen: if you wait for full disclosure from a Holmes, it might be years before you learn a damn thing.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

“But it appears that I am willing to put up with many things for the sake of Jamie Watson. He is fond of watching…

— Brittany Cavallaro

“But none of those deductions were methodical, Watson. That was all psychology. I loathe psychology.” “It’s okay,” I told her. “I hate losing at…

— Brittany Cavallaro

“I belonged here, I thought, with her, as surely as anyone belonged anywhere. As weird as here was.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

“I'd prefer to think that we aren't all so mercilessly bound to our pasts.”

— Brittany Cavallaro