That is what madness is, isn't it? All the wheels fly off the bus and things don't make sense any more. Or rather, they do, but it's not a kind of sense anyone else can understand.
It's as though I'm a cloud, and he's expecting rain.
When you live with a woman you learn something every day. So far I have learned that long hair will clog up the shower drain before you can say 'Liquid-Plumr';
Time is nothing - Henry's Letter to Claire
And so the twins had remained virgins. Julia and Valentina watched all of their high school and college friends disappear one by one into the adult world of sex, until they were the only people they k...
Is it sad to fancy David Tennant when you're dead?
I’m suicidal just thinking about it.
You're the oddest person I've ever met, you couldn't get rid of me if you tried.
Time is nothing.
No. Valentina closed her eyes. Of course not. It’ll be great, Mouse. We’ll have our own apartment, we won’t have to work,
I love you always. Time is nothing.
Martin said, It feels as though part of my self has detached and gone to Amsterdam, where it—she—is waiting for me. Do you know about phantom-limb syndrome? Julia nodded. There's pain where she ought...
Dead is the most alone you can be.
Why do I feel like I'm at the edge of a hole?
I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room
I do get tired of humans
…she smiles in an exhausted but warm sort of way, as though she is a brilliant sun in some other galaxy
Why is love intensified by absence?
Our coffee is so good we drink it ourselves!
I raise my head and see a red illuminated EXIT sign and as my eyes adjust I see tigers, cavemen with long spears, cavewomen wearing strategically modest skins, wolfish dogs. My heart is racing and for...