Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.

I can give or take elephants; I never can find the cheetah-but the zebras captivate me. They'd be one of the few things that would fit if we were lucky enough to live in a world that's black or white.

On my license, it says I'm an organ donor, but the truth is I'd consider being an organ martyr. I'm sure I'm worth a lot more dead than alive - the sum of the parts equal more than the whole. I wonder who might wind up walking around with my liver, my lungs, even my eyeballs. I wonder what poor asshole would get stuck with whatever it is in me that passes for a heart.

Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.

But mostly I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet. I still loved him. It felt like anything else permanent that has gone missing; a lost tooth, a severed leg. You might know better, but that doesn’t keep your tongue from poling at the hole in your gum, or your phantom limb from aching.

It does'nt matter who forgives you, if you're the one who can't forget.

They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.