I’m just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.
It's more impressive, I said out loud. From a distance, I mean. You can't see the wear on things, you know? You can't see the rust or the weeds or the paint cracking. You see the place as someone once...
If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the cross, and you'd see a dude getting stabbed in the neck, and you'd see people...
I tried to imagine him capital-S Somewhere as we prayed, but even then I could not quite convince myself that he and I would be together again. I already knew too many dead people. I knew that time wo...
I can't go to Amsterdam. One of my doctors thinks it's a bad idea.He was quiet for a second. God, he said. I should've just paid for it myself. Should've just taken you straight from the Funky Bones t...
Because Margo knows the secret of leaving, the secret I have only just now learned; leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life ou...
I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're gonna do. I'm just going to do it. Imagining the future is kind of nostalgia. You spend your whole life stuck in the...
We all romanticize the people we adore.
You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
We are greater than the sum of our parts.
The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd do...
It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.
I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting-wise.
I ran like a cheetah - well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being obse...
Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.
Ergo: girls should always make the first move, because (a) they are, on the whole, less likely to be rejected than guys, (b) that way, girls will never get kissed unless they want to be kissed.
Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.
You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
Please stop, I said. You're upsetting the black Santas.