I was still feeling the old loss, just in a new way.
He's stuck at 3:14 a.m. with only the moon to talk to.
I was patience defined, patience misspelled, patience sounded out slowly, letter by letter, with the t pronounced shh.
I hated my job, but I liked that I could do it
Show us life, now
Each word he said was boring, but collectively the melody of them lulled me. I tried to resist, but just the weight of him, in pounds
… it wasn’t pretend, I wasn’t in a fairytale or a fable. I shut my eyes and absorbed the silent whoomp that always accompanies this revelation. It’s the sound of the real world, gigantic and impossibl...
That's the problem with men my age, I'm somehow older than them.
I had a joint once and I didn’t feel right for a whole year.
We still kissed frequently, usually a cluster of small pecks. An acronym for our early deep kisses. Which in a way was more intimate because only we knew what it stood for.
This person has hoped and dreamed and now it is really happening and this person can hardly believe it. But believing is not an issue here, the time for faith and fantasy is over, it is really really...
The boy was growing bored and this was a form of growing up.
So this was what it was like not to be me.
It was an act of devotion. A little like writing or loving someone — it doesn’t always feel worthwhile, but not giving up somehow creates unexpected meaning over time.
Everyone knows that if you paint a human being entirely with house paint he will live, as long as you don't paint the bottom of his feet. It takes only a little thing like this to kill a person.
Their prayer was rage.
She was standing on the moon and if I responded I would be on the moon too, right next to her.
It was a real whale, a photograph of a real whale. I looked into its tiny wise eye and wondered where that eye was now. Was it alive and swimming, or had it died long ago, or was it dying now, right t...
I felt like I could do this forever, because nothing mattered more than anything else.
I didn’t say anything. He would have to step over my dead body to get off the phone.