"I accept your condemnation," I said.

if you were older you might agree with me. you might say that real love steals nothing. you might say that real love leaves a person intact. you would be wrong, jane. love is a greedy toddler who knows only the word 'mine.

In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.

I don't believe in writer's block.

Daddy always said that an option that you know to have a bad outcome is only a fool's option, i.e., not an option at all. And I liked to think that Daddy hadn't raised a fool.

I'm allergic to sad memories. It's the worst.

Wounds are like water set to boil - they heal best left unwatched.