I mean, if I went into my closet, I could find a previous draft and try to figure that out, but it takes a long time for me to find the voice to tell a story in. I was working from other points of view for a couple years there.

The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.

You look invincible,' my mother said one night. I loved these times, when we seemed to feel the same thing. I turned to her, wrapped in my thin gown, and said: I am.

If I had but an hour of love,if that be all that is given me,an hour of love upon this earth,I would give my love to thee.

As she brought prospective buyers through, the realtor said it was an oil stain, but it was me, seeping out of the bag.

You save yourself or you remain unsaved.

As if in the other side of his kiss there could ve a new life