Pretty much always. We need to tell the story of our life to someone.

I really believe it's the moments we can't talk about that become the rest of our lives. It's the moments we can't process by telling a story that destroy us in the end.

Don't do this. I love you. Don't shut me out.

These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost.

Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.

Some writers research in order to write. I write in order to research topics that interest me. Especially if I can meet with other people, in forums from illness support groups to phone-sex hotlines, and learn what other people know best.

For sure, they don't teach you this in history class, but in colonial times, the person who got left in the stocks overnight was nothing less than fair game for everybody to nail. Men or women, anybody bent over had no way of knowing who was doing the ram job, and this was the real reason you never wanted to end up here unless you had a family member or a friend who'd stand with you the whole time. To protect you. To watch your ass, for real.