Its funny how you can let yourself forget for seconds, how even in the heat of the horrible, you can have moments when you fool yourself into thinking it might all be okay

And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.

I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.

There is a certain fate to the universe and a certain randomness.

Its funny how you can let yourself forget for seconds, how even in the heat of the horrible, you can have moments when you fool yourself into thinking it might all be okay

The first sip of beer on a hot day is like that first finger-dip when you open a new jar of peanut butter.

Painful memories didn't just ease back in-they shoved the door open hard, all of them and all at once