You can never go back, only forward. I read that in a book once.
The angel we named God banned representations of himself, even the writing of his name, trying to halt the process of literalization—but in the end it became inevitable. The angel found himself at the...
She lost her fury. He’d had none. That’s how you win, in the end.
People stopped knowing how to behave, and most of all they stopped remembering . They needed reasons to toe the line, and that was what they were given. Two reasons. Heaven, and Hell. Equal in resonan...
Deep inside each of us is a part that mistrusts order and craves the relief of seeing the world shatter into the chaos it believes lies underneath all along.
Bodies are great, and I wouldn't go anywhere without mine, but sometimes they're so disappointing. If
Are you okay?’ ‘What do you mean?’ ‘You stopped talking. Just sat there looking intense.’ ‘Sorry. I had a stretch of interior monologue. Slightly lyrical. Takes a while to get through.
I once met a woman who'd been in therapy... and it seemed like the big thing she'd learned was to ignore everything she thought in the first hour of the day. That's when the negative stuff will try to...
The kind of woman who would breeze into the bathroom while I was shaving and say, Yo, shithead—you going to fix that shelf like you said, or do I have to take you back to Husbands-R-Us?
Of our jobs are bad jobs, but they’re the kind held by people in the background. People who are getting by. People who don’t play pool that well.
Know how much difference a night’s sleep can make, that what seems ungovernable and world-breaking at one A.M. can be made to feel like someone else’s dream if you put seven hours of unconsciousness b...
You haven't seen untidiness until you've seen a room where gravity has failed twice in different directions.
Wherever you go, and whatever you do, the first thing you're going to see in the morning, and the last thing at night, is the inside of your own head. An unchanging landscape, a still photograph.
We all serve the fates. Life will happen to us come what may. Not everyone gets to be a grandparent, but we're all someone's grandchild. We have no choice therefore but to carry someone else's weight,...
The future is hungry and unkind. It’ll gobble you up, little girl. It will eat your heart.
The furniture was white and the carpet red – it looked like the inside of someone's mouth. Three
Some stories, some people, deserve their length and span. They merit a novel-length treatment, have things to tell and other lives to illuminate.
People always find it so frustrating that there’s no structure they can see, that they just have to follow the river downstream and see what they find. They want to know the plot so they can guess the...
Never ask questions if you might not want to know the answers, lest you are pulled into those stories and the truths they reveal. Sometimes ignorance is better. It would probably not be so popular oth...
It's simply the way things are when people come together out of hurt rather than happiness. When you try to use people as band-aids you merely reinfect the wound, and every moment you spend with them...