I watched clouds awobbly from the floor ' that kayak. Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an' so is a soul. Who...
I understand now that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention if only one can first conceive of...
I think about pinball, and how being a kid’s like being shot up the firing lane and there’s no veering left or right; or you’re just sort of propelled. But once you clear the top, like when you’re six...
I loved Vinny like he was a part of me, and he loved me like a stick of gum. He'd spat me out when the flavor went, unwrapped another, and stuffed it in.
I looked gloomily into the murky lake at the bottom of my teacup, and
I lied, yes, but that doesn't make me a liar. Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, small wrong may be a big right.
He who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a world of pain & his family must pay it along with him! & only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life...
He was doing quite well until the last sentence, but if you bare your arse to a vengeful unicorn, the number of possible outcomes dwindles to one.
Grief’s a bastard, it really is—pardon my French. It makes everything else harder.
Five years later, I take a deep, shuddery breath to stop myself crying. It’s not just that I can’t hold Aoife again, it’s everything: It’s grief for the regions we deadlanded, the ice caps we melted,...
Esther runs Unalaq’s ruby thumbnail up the stem of a purple tulip. You miss purple, after a few years …
Do soldiers feel this, when they get back from a war? The utter weirdness of utter normality.
Do either of you know clock patience? You have to add cards up to fifteen?
Do ants get headaches?
Dermot found me; bad news inexorably does. Let me reiterate, bumping into Pope Pius XIII would have surprised me less. In fact, His Infallibility would have blended in better
Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.
De wereld is al wankel genoeg
Dappled sunshine shivers.
Crispin Hershey! Lady Suze holds up both hands as if I’m the sun god Ra. Your event was totes amazeballs! As they say.
Crazy people are hard work.