The children of this world and the adults of this world are in entirely separate boats and only drift near each other when we need a ride from someone or when someone needs us to wash our hands.

For Beatrice, our love broke my heart, and stopped yours.

If you have ever had a miserable experience, then you have probably had it said to you that you would feel better in the morning. This, of course, is utter nonsense, because a miserable experience remains a miserable experience even on the loveliest of morning.

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

Or why you are wearing a picture of Santa Clause on you shirts, but-” “It’s Herman Melville.

Every last souvenir of the love we had, the prizes & the debris of this relationship, like the glitter in the gutter when the parade has passed, all the everything & whatnot kicked to the curb.

There is a pair of snakes who have learned to drive a car so recklessly that they would run you over in the street and never stop to apologize.