...it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.

Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own.

Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.

And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren't for love.

The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning