I am not keeping my distance because it is uncomfortable for me, but because it is uncomfortable for them.

If you want to see God laugh, make a plan.

There are some dreams that get stuck between your teeth when you sleep, so that when you open your mouth to yawn awake they fly right out of you.

When you are a kid you have your own language, and unlike French or Spanish or whatever you start learning in fourth grade, this one you are born with, and eventually lose...Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult...is only a slow sewing it shut.

Her hands quieted. "Yeah. Because even if the law says that no one is responsible for anyone else, helping someone who needs it is the right thing to do." I sat down beside her, close enough that the skin of her arm hummed right next to mine. "You really believe that?" She looked down at her lap "Yeah." Then how," I asked, "can you walk away from me?

My whole life was about her, what if her whole life wasn’t all about me?

The legal system works really well, if you communicate a certain way. But if you don't, it all goes to Hell in a handbasket really quickly.