You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.

It's very simple. If you learn how to write well, to write with depth, cream will rise to the top. You'll get published. But, there is no secret.

You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.

Grief, he said, is carnivorous.

I was blessed to grow up in really interesting times and to go back to a home where I was very safe.

This world can only give me reminders of what I don't have, can never have, didn't have for long enough.

It had occurred to Sean once - on a bender about ten years before with some buddies, Sean and a bloodstream full of bourbon turning philosophical - that maybe they HAD gotten in that car. All three of them. And what they now thought of as their life was just a dream state. That all three of them were, in reality, still eleven-year-old boys trapped in some cellar, imagining what they'd become if they ever escaped and grew up.