Do not wait for the healing to arrive. It will never come. The holes will never leave or be filled with anything at all. But holes are interesting things.

Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal.

It was like living in a new house. I saw the undersides of tables, walked through the tangle of chair legs. It would be good to be a dog, I thought. You would feel safe surrounded by all of these leggy objects that never tried to run away.

but I am not here ironically; I am here sincerely.

The problem with not having anybody to tell you what to do, I understood, is that there was nobody to tell you what not to do.

Should I just sit down, right here at carousel seven, and shake until somebody's arms are around me and they're saying, 'It's okay, I'm here, I'm here, come with me to the institute.

Love is a helium-based emotion; Love always takes the high road.