I haven’t seen her in a while, haven’t returned her calls or stopped thinking about her.
I feel a dark wave of regret for the kind of person I turned out to be.
I don’t think any of us really knows how to knock someone out, Chuck said thoughtfully. You knock someone out with a blow to the head, its got to be a hard one, and nine out of ten times the victim wi...
Grief can be catered just like anything else.
Elmsbrook is the perfect town for a serial killer, and I mean that in the best possible way.
Bugs, Thumper, Roger, Peter, Velveteen. I name them after their storied counterparts and then I try my best to brain them. Because they remind me of where I am, marooned out here in this life I never...
At some point, loneliness becomes less a condition than a habit.
She'll cry, and if she does, I probably will, and then she'll have found a way in, and I will not let her pierce my walls in a Trojan horse of sympathy.
You're terrified of being alone. Anything you do now will be motivated by that fear. You have to stop worrying about finding love again. It will come when it comes. Get comfortable with being alone. I...
You still go to therapy?Nah. I gave up years ago.Mental health ins't for everyone.
You never know when you’re going to die, but maybe something in you does, some cellular consciousness that’s aware of the cosmic countdown and starts making plans, because on the last night of her lif...
You didn’t invent grief. My shrink once told me that. Really? Your shrink told you about me?
Why'd you come to me?Really?Yeah.I care less about letting you down.
When you’ve been married to someone for a while, you occasionally share these brief psychic moments, and right at that instant I know what she’s going to say just before she says it, even while I’m th...
To have nothing when you're twenty is cool, it's expected, but to have nothing when you're halfway to seventy, softening and widening on a daily basis, is something altogether different. It's like set...
Time doesn't heal as much as it buries things in the undergrowth of your brain, where they lie in wait to ambush you when you least expect it.
There are some people out there who don't wait for what come next. They decide what should come next and they go and make it happen.
The women look each other over as they chat, measuring thighs, bellies, hips, and asses, taking into account body types and recent pregnancies. They silently evaluate and pass judgment, realigning the...
Our sages say burying someone is considered the truest form of kindness and respect, as the deceased will not be able to thank you for it.That’s kind of funny, actually, since Dad was not exactly pron...
It's amazing how harmless the world can sometimes seem.