This is where the evening splits in half, Henry, love or death. Grab an end, pull hard, and make a wish.
Oh, the things we invent when we are scared and want to be rescued.
Dear Forgiveness, you know that recently we have had our difficulties and there are many things I want to ask you.
Here is the cake, and here is the fork, and here's the desire to put it inside us, and then the question behind every question: What happens next?
The blond boy in the red trunks is holding your head underwater because he is trying to kill you, and you deserve it, you do, and you know this, ...
History repeats itself. Someone says this. History throws its shadow over beginning, over the desktop, over the sock drawer with its socks, its hidden letters. history is the little man in a brown suit trying to define a room he is outside of, I know...
That's enough!" Holly scrambled out of her seat, too. "My three-year-old behaves better than all of you." She looked down at LJ, who was trying to stuff a fry up his nostril. "And that's not saying a whole lot.
We clutch our bellies and roll on the floor... When I say this, it should mean laughter, not poison.
There is an empty space next to you in the backseat of the station wagon. Make it the shape of everything you need. Now say hello.
If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand.
You're trying not to tell him you love him, and you're trying to choke down the feeling, and you're trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you'...
Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed.
We pull our boots on with both hands but we can't punch ourselves awake and all I can do is stand on the curb and say Sorry about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine. I couldn't get the boy to kill me, but I wore his jacket for the longest ti...
I’m saying I love you, Cami. All of that was as real for me as it was for you. I’m asking if you’ll stick this out beside me. I’m willing to lose my badge and even be dishonorably discharged if that’s the case. I just don’t want to lose y...
