“...he would have taken the guts of me with him even if we'd never been a couple at all.” — Katie Cotugno Copy Share Image
“Do you miss her? I blinked. Did I what? This was my best friend since preschool we were talking about, the girl… — Katie Cotugno Best friend Copy Share Image
“I never knew that looking could do that before, that it could feel so obscenely intimate.” — Katie Cotugno Copy Share Image
“Can I offer you a strong alcoholic beverage to help take the edge off being yourself?” — Katie Cotugno Copy Share Image
“All I could manage to do was watch him from across the room and wish there was a way to capture him,… — Katie Cotugno Copy Share Image
“(my whole life a holding pattern, some variation on wait and see)” — Katie Cotugno Life Copy Share Image
“...somehow this seems inevitable, the natural course of things. Maybe he's a homing pigeon. Maybe I'm his home.” — Katie Cotugno Nature Copy Share Image
“Wait, I almost shouted, but didn’t, and that would be my burden to bear. Instead, I stood on the curb and I… — Katie Cotugno Dreams Copy Share Image
“One thing about living in South Florida is that everywhere you go is violently air-conditioned,” — Katie Cotugno Copy Share Image
“Don’t pee on Judge Judy’s leg and tell her it’s raining,” Lou said.” — Katie Cotugno Judge judy Copy Share Image
“I loved ... the honest soul he kept hidden safe under all his bravado, and I loved how I was still, every… — Katie Cotugno Every day Copy Share Image
“It rained a couple of hours ago—it rains every single day, world without end—” — Katie Cotugno Every single day Copy Share Image
“I couldn't shake the feeling of warm possibility that was unpacking its suitcase inside me.” — Katie Cotugno Copy Share Image
“My eyes had been closed for a few minutes when he said it: "I love you," he muttered, so quiet, like a… — Katie Cotugno Every day Copy Share Image
“I think of how it felt to lose him, slow and painful and confusing, and how it felt to wonder if I'd… — Katie Cotugno Copy Share Image
