I smile. You were always so good at not covering up.Penny's smile is sad and a little off. It's the antidepressants. They've obliterated whatever filters I have left.
I look at her, wondering what it is about her that makes me want to simultaneously devote my life to her and get as far away from her as I can possibly get.
He gives her a look. She gives it right back. We couldn't have really had something good, he thinks, regret filling his lungs like water.Sometimes I think that too, Casey says, and he realizes that, o...
Forgiveness is a comfort, but it doesn't bring back what you lost
For the record, there are other visitors, a handful of pleasant-faced, middle-aged women, long-standing friends of my mother, attractive women in the early stages of disrepair, fighting to keep age at...
Fate. Destiny. God. It’s all a crock. People want their lives to make sense, want to sit back like cosmic detectives and examine what’s happened to them so far, identifying the key turning points that...
Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.
Bllod will separate, if need be, but its call is primordial, and it won't be refused.
At some point you lose sight of your actual parents; you just see a basketful of history and unresolved issues.
At seventy-two years old, women can still run roughshod over your heart. That’s something that never occurred to me, and I find it terrifying, but oddly reassuring.
As far as rapprochements go, it’s awkward and vague, but the advantage to being as emotionally inarticulate as we are is that it will do the trick.
And the violence of the coupling itself, primitive and elemental, reminding us that we’re all just dumb animals clinging to our spot on the food chain, eating, sleeping, and fucking as much as possibl...
And beneath the chaos of the moment, Denise becomes aware of a painful truth about herself: she is never as deeply in love with a man as she is in the moment he leaves her.
An old girlfriend is a gun in your belly. It's no longer loaded, so when you see her, all you feel is the hollow mechanical click in your gut, and possibly the ghost of an echo, sense memory from when...
You can’t let your dog crap on the sidewalk, but it’s perfectly acceptable to blow carcinogens down other people’s throats. Somewhere along the way, smokers exempted themselves from the social contrac...
What would you like to do today? he says. She gives him a funny look. What are my options? Sky’s the limit. She considers it for a moment. Brunch? I say the sky’s the limit and all you can come up wit...
This is probably as good a time as any to mention that I was holding a large birthday cake.
Sometimes you walk past a pretty girl on the street there's something beyond beauty in her face, something warm and smart and inviting, and in the three seconds you have to look at her, you actually f...
I sit down on the bed, cradling her little head against my shoulder, inhaling her sweet baby scent. Someday she'll get older, and the world will start having its way with her. She'll throw temper tant...
I loved her for so long. Our past trails behind us like a comet's tail, the future stretched out before us like the universe. Things happen. People get lost and love breaks.