I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused.

When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.

Accidents did not just happen. From time to time they were carefully plotted, calculated, and arranged to one’s advantage-all, of course, under the cloak of happenstance.

People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.

You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else. I need you, she replied. Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip.

Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you

Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie.