Bleeding heart, he’d called her. Well. He should know. He’d been the first to rip it to pieces.

Embarrassment isn't a just cause of action.

Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.

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

never trust a man who wears a pinkie ring. . . the only jewelry a guy should wear is a wedding band or a super bowl ring

A world that was crowded with people could still be a very lonely place.

let me tell you what happens when you cook down the syrup of loss over the open fire of sorrow: it solidfies into something wlaw. not grief, like you'd expect, or even regret. no, it gets thick as paste, black as ash; yet it isn't until you dip a finger in and feel that sharp taste dissolving on your tounge that you realize this is angel in its purest form, unrefined; a substance to be weighed and measyred and spread.