tiny: but there is the word, this word phil wrayson taught me once: weltschmerz. it's the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be. i live in a big goddamned weltzschermz ocean, you know? and so do you.

It's goodbye to some things. And hello to others.

That's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through the silent parts.

If goodness can't come from bad things, it makes bad things unbearable.

She has been hanging on to the hope of him for so long that she doesn't realize there isn't anything left to hope for.

There are few things harder than being born into the wrong body.

And once again I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and effect is backward. The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.