Then a little voice in him said, Let go, let go, let go
Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself that made her distinct from those around her, and learned how to display them proudly.
As he wrote, the candle in the window kept flickering, and despite his desk lamp the flickering distracted him. He sat back in the old wooden school chair he'd had since college and heard the reassuri...
There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven.
Your first kiss is destiny knocking.
Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.
Hey, Ocean Eyes, my father said. Where’d you go on us?
What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meantgone.
Samuel walked out to Lindsey then, and there she was in his arms, my sweet butterball babe, born ten years after my fourteen years on Earth: Abigail Suzanne. Little Susie to me. Samuel placed Susie on...
My name was Salmon like the fish, first name Susie.
And as Flora twirled, other girls and women came through the field in all directions. Our heartache poured into one another like water from cup to cup. Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the sma...
The living deserve attention, too
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.
I now think that was distanced me from Tricia and from the Rape Crisis Center was their use of generalities. I did not want to be one of a group or compared with others. It somehow blindsided my sense...
I forgive you, I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.
But she was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything. At seventy she had come to believe in time alone.
I wake up very early in the morning. I like to start in the dark, and I never work at night, because my brain is evaporated by 4 P.M.
Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.
He would find his Susie,inside his young son. Give that love to the living.
My life was over; my life had just begun.