I exaggerated even before I began to exaggerate, because it's true — nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.
He could not wait to get rid of them so he could enjoy remembering them.
It is possible to imagine a person so entirely that the image resists attempts to dislodge it.
Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.
We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.
I assemble stories-me and a hundred million other people-at the sentence level. Not by coming up with a sweeping story line.