You're just trying on different identities, like everyone in those Shakespeare plays. And the people we pretend at, they're already in us. That's why we pretend them in the first place.

We are like Humpty Dumpty and all these king's horses and all these king's men cannot put us back together again

Love can make you immortal

I’ve since come to understand that the universe operates on the same general equilibrium theory as markets.It never gives you something without making you pay for it somehow.

That’s the thing you never expect about grieving, what a competition it is.

Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open.

You?' is all I can manage to choke out. 'Always me,' she replies softly, bashfully. 'Who else?